A Woman Vice-President?

What do the complementarians reading this blog make of the possibility of a woman Vice-President? Would you agree with what John Piper wrote about women in positions of secular authority, which I quoted here? Would that make it hard for you to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket, which might lead to a woman President and [...]

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Ephesians 5:15-6:6, guest post by Don Johnson

Ephesians 5-6 Pericope StructureDraft 1.0 by Don Johnson, August 25, 2008
The pericope is from Eph 5:15 to Eph 6:9. I use my own translation below to highlight some aspects.
There are multiple chiasms that contain phrases that are in an inverted parallel form. The chiasms allow one to pair up the appropriate phrases (A [...]

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Legalism in egalitarianism and complementarianism

Legalism can kill the spirit of the law by following just the letter of the law. Jesus had a lot to say about this during his ministry.
On this blog we often point out problems, or potential problems, with egalitarianism or complementarianism. One rebuttal to pointing out the problems people have experienced under either framework is [...]

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Be Careful Ware You Aim

In participating in the discussions on this blog, I’ve noticed an interesting dynamic: the egalitarians are usually the ones constantly quoting (and sometimes misquoting) the teachings of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, while complementarians like myself are relatively ignorant of them. I had never heard of Bruce Ware, Russell Moore, David Kotter, or [...]

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article: Further Confessions of a Recovering Feminist

The CBMW’s Gender Blog has just posted Further Confessions of a Recovering Feminist, Part 1, by Courtney Tarter. I recommend that we who interact here on Complegalitarian blog read Courtney’s article. It is good for all sides in these debates to read testimonies from anyone, like Courtney, which speak to issues in the complemantarian-egalitarian debates.
Since [...]

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The Upside Down God (An Egalitarian Muses)

The complementarian John Piper says (in his book, What’s the Difference) that the essence of femininity is to affirm, respect and follow the leadership of a man. This means that as a female, Piper believes I find my femininity only in so far as I affirm that godly men, as opposed to godly women, are [...]

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Revisiting My Personal Spaghetti Jar Incident

Earlier this year, I wrote about a time in my marriage when I chose to set aside my personal convictions and sense of God’s will for the sake of my wife’s needs. The point of that post was that while some might see my “submitting” or “yielding” to my wife in this way as an [...]

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Authority, Power, and Control

In a recent comment, I stated that I want to combat the mistaken notion that authority equals control. In other words, I believe it is possible to have authority without being “authoritarian” and “controlling”. In response, both an egalitarian and a complementarian contested that notion. The egalitarian basically argued that authority always leads to controlling [...]

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Lessons from a Spaghetti Jar

In a recent comment thread, someone pointed to an interview with a complementarian woman who describes how submission to her husband plays out in every day life. Some of the things she lists include:
Responding to the priorities he has established in the realms of caring for the home, such as cooking, cleaning . . . [...]

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