I heard about the Allie Beth Stuckey blowup on Twitter/X after the fact and have done my best to accurately put all the pieces together. (If anything I’ve reported below is factually incorrect, please let me know in the comments.) What stood out to me is that it is the perfect encapsulation of what I …
A conversation started up in the comments of an older post called Should Women Say The Lord’s Prayer in Church? I started writing a lengthy reply and realized I think this is important enough to put in a post. Kris said here: I think we already have a disaster for conservative women in the church. …
I want to preface my post by pointing out that what I am writing below is NOT a criticism of Erika Kirk. I believe how she chooses to move forward is between her and God. I am writing this to point out the very real fork-in-the-road moment we are about to experience in the conservative …
Patriarchy, Complementarianism, and Egalitarianism are all wrong for different reasons. Each one has glaring blind spots, inconsistencies, and/or ignores parts of Scripture. The terms Mutuality and Complementarity Without Hierarchy are both better. But it’s exhausting to have to constantly explain to people why you reject the main terminology when everyone wants to immediately sort you …
This thread popped up in my Twitter/X feed. It’s a lengthy thread about a pastor facing discipline in the Presbyterian church. Michael Hunter described it this way: On Saturday, Grace Presbytery (ARPC) decided to take up charges against me based on the investigator’s report. I do not intend to participate in any ecclesiastical trial since …
I just republished a post from 2008 called The Christian View of the Role of Women. There is a lengthy discussion in the comments and I want to highlight a few points I made. One of them I rarely see addressed (if ever). I think you’ll be able to follow this even though this is …
Rachel Miller wrote The Piper Scale of Female Leadership in which she likened John Piper’s views on a woman’s influence and leadership to the Pritchard’s Poetry Scale from Dead Poet’s Society. If you aren’t familiar with the reference to Dead Poet’s Society, I’ve included a clip here at the end of the post. Recently I …
