I had a surreal moment this morning when I realized that sometimes as a conservative biblical egalitarian I feel like I have more in common with the Christian patriarchlists whose work I’ve been picking apart and publicly refuting for the past fifteen years than the Christian egalitarians I should be able to relate to. Yes, …
October 2025 Update: I wrote this when I had a website named A Woman’s Freedom in Christ. I have folded all of that content into the website you are on now. Is there a place for conservative biblical egalitarians right now? At one point a few months ago I decided the answer was a resounding …
For a long time I’ve wanted to tackle one of the principal problems of egalitarian Christian marriages and that is the fact that someone has to be in charge or there will be chaos. You know. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. SOMEONE must be in charge at all times or the marriage will …
It was fascinating to watch the complementarian leaders of Together for the Gospel insist that C.J. Maheney speak at their conference last week despite the concerns expressed by many that he is not fit for teaching or leadership given the controversies surrounding his leadership in Sovereign Grace Ministries. Coupled with this, there are more complementarians …
Update October 2025 – I published this post in October 2016. It has been nine years and my views on this topic have continued to grow and deepen. My views on other things in this post have also changed. If I were to write this post now, I would write parts of it differently. But …
Perhaps we have turned a tiny corner over the past year. In one week, two different Neo-Reformed Complementarian websites had posts about the importance of women studying theology. They were even affirming of women studying theology (albeit with many caveats and subtle warnings). Women Studying Theology The first I saw was on John Piper’s Desiring …
There are many Christian men and women who believe the Bible and desire to live a life pleasing to the Lord who reject the idea that the Lord created men to be “over” women. From the article linked at the end: I have the privilege of knowing many Christian women who love Jesus, believe the …
