This is one of those things that is so brilliant I wish I had thought of it! The setup in case you aren’t familiar… The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is the complementarian manifesto put out by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. You can read it here: Danvers Statement. This is …
Although we are led to believe that the Bible is full to the brim with passages supporting the hierarchtical/patriarchal/complementarian view, in reality it primarily hinges on one passage. In 1 Timothy 2:11-15 we read: A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over …
This is when I launched a separate website called A Woman’s Freedom in Christ. The move to the new site was the culmination of several weeks of thinking, pondering, reading, praying, and talking with David. You know that unsettled, restless feeling you get when God is about to move you to do something different or …
When I was writing my A Woman’s Freedom in Christ series, I did one post entitled The Complementarian Argument from Historical Precedence. In that post, I included a long series of quotes from the span of history. Each quote gave an historical perspective on the views of important men on women. It is an eye …
Long time readers will already know that I’m pretty conservative in my theology and traditional when it comes to my worship style preference. We attend a church with a pipe organ and a fairly formal (but not rigid) service. I love hymns and expository preaching. But I have to say that I found something this …
A few nights ago I was sitting in the car, waiting for David and Caroline to come out of Meijer. I turned on the radio and found the broadcast of a church service. I knew right away what kind of a church it was. The soloist was doing a heartfelt job, but was obviously not …
Last autumn I was in the midst of a series entitled Exploring a Woman’s Freedom in Christ when the holidays hit. I pretty much dropped the series at that point mostly because of time issues. Between the holidays, selling a house, finding a house, and moving, I wasn’t doing much studying! I’m picking up this …
