Women in the Church, by Tom Schreiner

Gender Blog has announced:
This past Sunday, Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner preached on the distinctive roles God has given to men and women in the kingdom at the Unity and Diversity Conference. The event was sponsored by Grace Reformation Church of Woodland, California. His expositional sermon is entitled “Who Does What?” taken from 1 Timothy 2:9-15.
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Welcome to the new Complegalitarian blog

The Complegalitarian blog has moved to this new location. I hope that the nice furnishings here at our new place will serve as an incentive to keep our comments as clean and uplifting as possible. We’re starting with a clean slate and clean hearts at this new blog.
I have rewritten our comment guidelines, trying to [...]

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Reflecting on My First Sunday Ever With a Woman Leading

I’ve been attending a small Episcopal church in my area lately. This Sunday’s service was led by a deacon (which is what they call a person who has graduated from the Episcopal seminary program—they serve as a deacon for a year or two, and then are ordained as a priest. Correct me if I’m wrong, [...]

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Both Biblical and Egalitarian

Rebecca Groothius recently blogged that one can be a Christian egalitarian without following the politics of feminism. In her first major point she writes:
Biblical equality is not equivalent to the politics of feminism (the incessant rhetoric of patriarichal-complementarians not withstanding). Rather, biblical equality seeks to understand and explicate biblical teaching regarding the mission and meaning [...]

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Differences Between the Genders

Gender Differences in Pain Sensitivity
Boys dominant-dependant, Girls intimate-dependant
Men more likely to hiccup, women more likely to receive negative feedback from others if they are aggressive
Wiki on the history and concept of gender roles
Boys and girls brains are different
Regardless of scientific findings, gender stereotypes continue
Boys brains are bigger
Testosterone shapes brains, women encode memories differently than men, [...]

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The Strawman "Sameness"

To all those who claim that egals spout sameness,

I don’t know where you heard this from but it appears to be a strawman (empty caricature) that gets presented for demolition every now and then. So go ahead demolish it. I’m right there with you. It’s not our strawman. I don’t know who he belongs [...]

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Thinking Again about 1 Tim. 3:1-7

I always find it interesting how we arrive at our conclusions. Do we take into account the differences of languages. When there is a question do we do some research on the original language. By research I do not mean checking Strong’s (the least accurate ‘dictionary’), but looking in as many Greek-English dictionaries [...]

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Is Sarah Sumner an egalitarian or a complementarian?

In a comment on a previous post John Hobbins perceptively wrote:
John wrote:
It’s possible to characterize Sarah Sumner as a soft egal or as a very soft comp. But on CBE, she was treated by most as some kind of traitor to the cause. Once again, fine, I should have expected it. That’s what movement blogs [...]

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Book Review: "Women’s Ministry in the Local Church" by J. Ligon Duncan and Susan Hunt

Welcome to a guest post from appreciated Complegalitarian commenter, emsolidegloria. She attends a complementarian church, though does not identify with either complementarian or egalitarian positions in full, and wishes for personal reasons to remain anonymous. The following is her review of a book recommended by CBMW’s Randy Stinson, Complementarian pastor, C.J. Mahaney, Mary A. Kassian, [...]

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women church leaders

Mimi at The CBE Scroll blogged this week, asking Able to Lead the Free World, but not a Local Church ?
What do you believe that the Bible says about women having leadership of a local church?
UPDATE (Nov. 1): Many believe that 1 Tim. 2:12 explicitly prohibits any woman from having teaching authority over any man. [...]

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