Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Today’s CBMW’s Gender Blog post is titled What Can Women Do? The post, mostly by Lydia Brownback, excerpts 16 points from a 1995 sermon by John Piper titled A Challenge to Women:
1) That all of your life-in whatever calling-be devoted to the glory of God. That the promises of Christ be trusted so fully [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There have been some comments on previous posts asking if there are books on egalitarian marriage. Click here to find quite a few on the CBE website.
And you can find books on marriage from a complementarian viewpoint on the CBMW website.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some of you might think that I’ve been on vacation. Yeah, I wish. I have had exceedingly limited time for blogging, so I have spent time working on my own new blog and devoting time to other issues. But I have kept abreast of the ongoings here, moderating comments while Wayne was on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2008 | 29 Comments »
A blog reader has asked if 1 Tim. 3:2 allows for women to be church elders. The reader is aware that the Greek phrase mias gunaikos andra (“one woman husband”) was found to occur in an epitaph for a woman on a tombstone.
Does anyone know how widely this phrase referred to women as well as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2008 | 38 Comments »
In Wayne’s last post, he asked what it would take to achieve a truce in the gender debates. In the comments on that post, it quickly became evident why such a truce has been so difficult to achieve. A complementarian (henceforth known as “C”) commented that such a truce would be more likely to happen [...]
Posted in women's ministry, tagged Packer on January 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
VirtueOnline has an interesting interview with J.I. Packer. This is mostly about the situation in the Anglican Communion. But in passing Packer gives his thoughts on the ordination of women:
VIRTUEONLINE: On women’s ordination. … do you think that pursuing women’s ordination as an issue will eventually bring schism and division among the orthodox?
PACKER: My hope [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2008 | 63 Comments »
A comment on the preceding post has led me to ponder several times about what a truce in the gender debates might look like. We have experienced some truces among people of faith in the past over issues which divided them (age of baptism, charismatic gifts, acceptability of slavery for people today, etc.). Perhaps it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2008 | 30 Comments »
WWJD? What would Jesus do? Would he encourage or prohibit women from having authority over men? In the work place? In universities? In Bible schools? In Christian colleges? In synogogues? In the church? In parachurch organizations, such as missionary groups?
Why or why not?
Remember, be nice to each other; it’s the biblical thing to do.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The KJV says:
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
I tried having the comments on this blog be unmoderated this week, to see how things would go. But the escalation and blame game resumed as in the past. It is not easy to learn to state things without any blame [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 31 Comments »
Suzanne McCarthy has responded to CBE and CBMW blog exchanges on the meaning of Greek kephale:
CBE posted on kephale. After a long series of comments including a little nonsense, Gender blog responded. And this is my response to Gender Blog. I posted the following in two comments on cbe’s blog.
Open letter to David Kotter of [...]
