Why complementarianism is compelling

I was raised as a complementarian. Our pastors taught complementarianism from the Bible. It was also taught at my Bible school.
I suggest that one of the main reasons, perhaps the main reason, why complementarianism is so compelling to conservative Christians is that, according to their teaching, it seems to be what is taught in the [...]

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Complementarian and Egalitarian Concerns: How Much Bias Do We Bring From Culture?

While the cultural climate of our times rightfully presses for the dismantling of prejudice and discrimination against women, it must not unduly influence our understanding of what the Bible teaches about the role of women in church leadership. For those of us who are compelled to let the Scriptures sit in judgment of our thinking [...]

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Suzanne’s egalitarian church

Suzanne McCarthy has blogged about her egalitarian church.

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Why I am a Complementarian

A brief explanation of why I believe that a high view of the Bible necessitates the Complementarian view, which is the historic view of both the Jews and the Christian Church. And a few questions for my Egalitarian friends.

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Welcome to David McKay, new blogger

Let’s give a warm welcome to David McKay, the newest member of the Complegalitarian blogging staff. I have had many good email exchanges with David over the past years. David is a music teacher and a keen student of the Bible. He is a complementarian, so I am glad to welcome him to this blog [...]

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I quit, guest post by Codepoke (Kevin Knox)

My last post consciously about the place of women in the church or family was back in October of 2007. The title of this post, therefore, refers to a past event, not to something that just happened. I didn’t quit intentionally, but Wayne’s struggles to maintain the Complegalitarian blog put me to thinking about why [...]

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Good Post Alert: Men, Women and the Bible

Mart De Haan, who some of you may have heard on radio or tv, is thinking about men, women, and the Bible. Coming from neither complementarian or egalitarian position (which he mentions in another great post mulling over Women in High Places, as well as the recent, What About Women Elders?), he does a fantastic [...]

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Romancing the Perfect Man

Spinning off the new movie, Twilight, Jonalyn Grace Fincher writes a most thoughtful and provocative post on the search for the “perfect man,” intimating that such perfection is, unfortunately, just a bit un-human.  I believe she’s hit on some very deep yet not oft-discussed motivations of the female heart.  (Not that the search for the [...]

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an ordination sermon

Yesterday my wife and I had the privilege of attending the ordination of Brenna Robinson Stanfield, the daughter of Bill (a classmate of mine in Bible school) and Bonnie Robinson. It was a beautiful ceremony, with Bonnie, a concert musician, like Bill’s mother, playing the pipe organ and Bill, President of Whitworth University, delivering the [...]

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