Biblical womanhood and manhood

Professor Scot McKnight’s class last night began with a discussion of masculinity and femininity:
To set the whole class into context, we focused last night on discussions about “masculinity and femininity” — asking students to discuss what they are hearing and thinking about such issues — which I followed with a brief description of strong patriarchy, [...]

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Eternal subordinationism and complementarianism

I was raised in a strongly complementarian church. I attended (and graduated from) a strongly complementarian Bible school where female students could not take the Pastors major.
But none of my pastors or Bible school professors ever taught eternal subordinationism within the Trinity. I believe that they would have considered such a doctrine not to be [...]

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Are women called to be pastors?

Some women testify that they have been called by God to be pastors. Blogger Tim Challies believes that they have not been called to be pastors, since the “plain reading” of Scripture is that women cannot be pastors. Tim says on CBMW’s Gender Blog:
In The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment I say that the local [...]

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Why is the gender debate so contentious?

I have frequently wondered why the gender debate among Christians has become so contentious? Is it simply that any disagreement has the potential for much heat to be produced, but there is a time span during Church history before a disagreement is allowed to be simply that, without hindering spiritual unity, risking deeper hurt to [...]

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more on moderating comments

I really don’t like posting on something so uninteresting as moderating comments, but I need to periodically remind us all that when a comment is not approved, there is some reason. That reason is never ideological. I approve comments from comps as well as egals. What disqualifies a comment from being approved for posting are [...]

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Huckabee and submission

Last night there was a debate for the Republican candidates for President of the U.S. Mike Huckabee was asked a question about submission:

Huckabee was put on the defensive last night about his religion when one of the moderators asked him about his signature on a 1998 ad in The New York Times, placed by the [...]

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The Fundamental Irony of Egalitarianism?

In yesterday’s post, Peter accused complementarians of dishonesty when they make statements to the effect that leadership roles are not intrinsically “better” than roles which are characterized primarily by submission. Basically, Peter said that we know instinctively that leadership roles are of higher status than others. What’s more, he argued that this is a cultural [...]

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The fundamental lie of complementarianism?

You may be interested in the ongoing discussion between Jeremy Pierce and myself in comments on my Gentle Wisdom post Complementarianism: Sola Scriptura or Sola Traditio? Here is a taster:
Jeremy, concerning a view which he attributes to most complementarians:
[The third view] insists that neither set of roles is better than the other
My response:
This in my [...]

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A Minister’s Husband

A blogger invites our comments on her post “A Minister’s Husband.”

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