Bridge building

Have you heard of mission creep? If not, it’s when a mission starts out with one objective, but, over time, other objectives get added. I wonder how many of you have noticed that some mission creep has occurred on this blog. Have you been a part of this blog community long enough to remember what [...]

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The Trinity: Hierarchal, Not Hierarchal, Creedal, Biblical, What…?

There are many different thoughts going at once on the Imageo Dei thread, but recently they have been centered on what the nature of the Trinity is (and what that may or may not mean as we seek to reflect it in our relationships).  Some bits and pieces from the conversation, in no particular order, that serve to stir the [...]

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Threaded comments

This is a post on which complementarians and egalitarians can be in total agreement!
There is a new feature available for this blog: threaded comments. Some of you have experienced the frustration of replying to someone else in comments to a post. But your reply appears far away from theirs and it is easy for them [...]

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Imago Dei church’s statement

Eric Weiss asked such an important question in a comment that I have decided to turn his comment into a guest post. I have moved Eric’s comment and a response to it to this post, so they can be highlighted as they deserve. Here is Eric’s comment:
I interjected a comment on a blog re: “complementarianism” [...]

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Bob Jones U. repents of racism

Ethicsdaily.com has reported a social shift that may represent a larger leap than our recent election of an African-American president. Bob Jones University, perhaps the most fundamentalist and segregated Baptist school in the world, has issued an apology for its practices and policies of racial segregation.
In 1986, a member of the Bible department [at [...]

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Scripture and gender issues

Here’s a question for everyone:
What role has Scripture had in shaping your views on gender issue? Does it, for instance, have a primary role or is it one of many different resources that you have used to view gender issues, such as observations of nature, study of history, study of gender treatment in different civilizations, [...]

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Do you feel safe now?

This blog has never been an easy one to manage, post on, or interact on. It has frustrated a number of individuals so much that they have come and left. As those who have been around while know, I’ve tried a number of different things (posts about safer posts and comments, revising the guidelines, moderation, [...]

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The Table is Round and Wide (and the Coffee Beans are Fresh Ground Organic)

When I first came to Complegal, it was as a woman stumbling out of a very hard version of complementarianism and a personal experience that only made it worse.   I didn’t realize there was such a thing as soft-comps.  I didn’t realize there was such a thing as mid-comps.  And I certainly didn’t realize there were [...]

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Turn the Beatie Around

POST UPDATE:For those of you accusing me of building a strawman, what can I say except that it isn’t?  It’s a thought experiment.  But I’ll let it go in order to get to the point everyone seems to be missing.  
What I am wanting are responses from thoughtful egals who dare to question their own [...]

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Does headship imply authority?

Does headship imply authority? That seems to me to be a question whose answer largely defines whether one is a complementarian or an egalitarian. (Please correct me if I have not understood these two categories properly, however.)
I grew up being taught that biblical headship included authority, that when the Bible speaks of Christ as head [...]

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