Is Egalitarianism on a Slippery Slope?
I don’t know about you, but I have evangelical friends with all kinds of different views on gender. Come to think of it, I have evangelical friends with all kinds of different views on a whole host of topics: child baptism or believers baptism, just war or pacifism, Arminianism or Calvinism, and, yes, even egalitarianism or some form of gender hierarchism (often called, somewhat misleadingly, “complementarianism”). Since evangelicalism has no official magisterium, such diversity is [more]
I would suggest that most, if not all, women would have been the subject of ridicule in some form or other simply because of their gender. Sometimes it is felt even without words - the scorn, belittling behaviour and condescension. Then of course we know of the way many men talk of their mothers, wives, sisters and women in general when with their friends; berating women as being silly, emotional, talkative (fill in the dots).
BUT....what [more]
The blogosphere is buzzing with backlash about recent articles that are advocating for "young marriage." Apparently, the millennials (18-29 yr olds), my generation, have a low marriage rate at 21 percent in the U.S., compared to other generations during this age range.
I posed a question on my Facebook status to my unmarried or later-married friends:
Why are YOU delaying marriage? (Besides not knowing anyone you WANT to marry.) I chose to get married instead of waiting, [more]
This photo is of an apple.......no question about that. Now it's cut we can see inside but before then we had no idea what was inside. So it is with people.....we can assume things without knowing 'what's inside'. There's an old saying 'don't judge a book by its cover', and yet it happens all the time. We see someone and make assumptions. Hopefully it remains in our mind and we control ourselves from making statements [more]
Is Real Faith Getting Skewed Today
There are a number of ways that godly faith in the God who is GOD, the REAL Messiah and the ONLY HOLY Spirit can get skewed is when humans step in to contain and control. I believe that what I’m going to say needs to be said and spread. I’d like to see it defined concisely and plainly. But for now I’d like us to just define it well.
At this time in my church, I’m [more]
The new issue of Mutuality, themed “Rape and Sexual Violence,” is hot off the press. It includes the following piece by Christian blogger Luke Harms (lukelivingthetension.blogspot.com). Harms critiques what he sees as a culture of rape present in the church, which holds that women are responsible for the sexual violence committed against them. We invite you to join in this important conversation.
Recently, a fellow blogger wrote a great piece about the problems with modesty rules [more]
That same day two of them were walking to the village of Emmaus, about seven miles out of Jerusalem.
They were deep in conversation, going over all these things that had happened. In the middle of their talk and questions, Jesus came up and walked along with them, but they were not able to recognise who he was.
He asked "What's this you are discussing so intently as you walk along ?" They just stood there, long [more]
In Mark 14 and Matthew 26 we read of Jesus being anointed by a woman while visiting the home of a man called Simon the Leper. The story ends with Jesus' words, "Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her" (Matthew 26:13, TNIV).
We should take Jesus' comment seriously and thus look for ways to remember and honor this woman. [more]
There it is, plain as day: “For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and [...]
Is the example of Jesus’ earthly submission to the Father a model of a wife’s submission to her husband? Luke 22 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” John 14 31 “but the world must learn that I love the Father and that [...]
In years gone by, no publisher would print a book written by a woman and so women writers had to use pseudonyms to get their work recognised. Even today, there is the persistent thought that women are mostly suitable for writing about things which pertain to the home and children. One of the great things [...]
When most of us egalitarians have a friend with questions about women in ministry, we offer them one of a few classic books. We give them Gilbert Bilizekian’s Beyond Sex Roles or one of the multi-views books published by InterVarsity Press or Zondervan or perhaps (if we’re really creative!) refer them to an article on [...]
I have just been browsing a website which promotes roles for women and men as God’s ordained will for all time. It showed again the enormous power of words to create impressions and convince people of a point of view. History shows that many strong people convinced others that what they promoted was the ‘truth’ [...]
The blog was long, but intriguing. The author had written on the place of women in the church. He spent an inordinate amount of time unpacking a lot of preliminary thoughts, but as a woman with a stake in this battle, I hung in patiently. He got to the part about “hesuchia,” the word used [...]
There has been so much excellent material written re the (false) teaching of subordination within the Godhead and particularly as it relates to husbands and wives. What intrigues me is that those who promote this way of thinking only make comparison of Father to Son and husband to wife when it comes to eternal subordination. [...]
