Karen alerted me on Facebook to an interesting discussion taking place on a few different blogs and asked what I thought. As I was reading through all the relevant articles, I decided to just start jotting down some thoughts here as I was going. Here are the articles I read although I am only going …
The restrictions put on women’s functioning in the church by complementarians generally come down to a few key verses. As I’ve written before, most people read the entirety of the Scriptures through the complementarian filter of those few verses. Because they believe those verses must be true as they are literally read, they dismiss anything …
Felicity at Simply Church has a short but thought-provoking post entitled The Hemiplegic Bride. She cites the following: In China, around 80% of house churches are planted by ordinary women In India there is a significant harvest being reaped by women of all castes. Two years ago, I met two women–ordinary, middle aged housewives–one of …
Dee and Deb over at The Wartburg Watch are discussing the infamous list by Wayne Gruden that we’ve discussed before: But What Should Women Do In the Church? In their post, Wayne Grudem: 83 Biblical Rules for Gospel Women, a commenter named “Looking for You” posted the following. Ha. Well, in the patriarchal church I …
The terms complementarian and egalitarian are used all the time, but they are’t two simple terms. There can be quite a lot of nuance for each one. For example, what someone might mean when they identify as one or the other may not be at all what the other person envisions. So it’s interesting to …
Denny Burk wrote a post about Christianity Today’s list of “50 Women to Watch: Those Most Shaping the Church and Culture.” The list ran the gamut in terms of theology and practice. Burk’s biggest problem with the list was the mingling of complementarians and egalitarians. He writes: The article doesn’t include much of a discussion …
I like to people watch. And I like to wrestle with ideas. So one of my favorite things to do is watch people wrestle with ideas. It’s been fascinating watching the reactions to Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and …
