Question on Gifts and Gender

One of the reasons I was confused when I first began to understand that many limit the types of spiritual ministry that men might receive from women due to certain passages of Scripture, was my understanding that I Corinthians 12 describes spiritual gifts as those given by God, via the Holy Spirit, to various members [...]

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Why Arguments against Women in Ministry Aren’t Biblical, by BW3

Ben Witherington writes on this topic which has been near and dear to his heart for many years:
http://blog.beliefnet.com/bibleandculture/2009/10/why-arguments-against-women-in-ministry-arent-biblical.html
Your responses to what he says are welcome here as comments.

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What Women Want Now

A recent issue of Time magazine has an article asking “What Women Want Now” The article finds that both women and men are stressed today over employment, marriage, and gender roles.
What responses do you have to the article? Would everything be better if women would just “stay in the place” at home, raising their children? [...]

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Feminism makes women unhappy?

Feminism makes women unhappy.
Here’s the article on CBMW: http://www.cbmw.org/Blog/Posts/NYT-Modern-Women-are-Unhappy
responding to this op-ed piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20dowd.html?_r=1
 
This was suggested by Joy.

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Women as Leaders: Contemporary Perspectives on the Roles of Women in Messianic Judaism

Interesting article, published in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol 6, No 1 (2009):
Women as Leaders: Contemporary Perspectives on the Roles of Women in Messianic Judaism
Comments welcome here.
HT: Eric Weiss

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Bruce Ware and God’s image in ‘man’…

a quote from an old article on CBMW’s Gender Blog …
“The position Grudem and Ware hold is of course the position of CBMW and we believe it has considerable implications for gender issues. The doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity, is intrinsically important as a type of parallel to how we relate to both God [...]

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Which is the birth that saves?

If, as John Piper says (thanks to Scot McKnight @ Beliefnet), the church is propagaged by spiritual rebirth and not physical birth, then what does this do to the complementarian plank based on I Timothy 2:15, that women are saved through childbearing? (And therefore women should get married and bear children, if they are able?)
(Not [...]

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Driscoll not PG about Sex. Amen!

This post was originally on my blog and touches on the controversial pastor, Mark Driscoll, over whom I have been having an interesting exchange at Church Discipline.  I have observed that debate about him inevitably turns into comp-egal discussions, so I’m posting it here to get the blog rolling.
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Axiom: If you want to get conservative church folk [...]

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If, Then…

The following is a slightly altered version of Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem.
What do you think? Does it work?
If…
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all [ ] doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can [...]

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IN RECOGNITION OF WOMEN

IN RECOGNITION OF WOMEN…. More than ever before I am running into women who are questioning and even resenting the idea that women cannot lead, teach, preach, shepherd, or do anything that puts them in the forefront of men in the church. And even more interesting but not at all surprising is that these questions [...]

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