There were a few reasons David and I never fully walked into the patriarchal camp when we went through a period of intense pressure from multiple outside sources regarding these topics. One of those reasons was the fact that it was obvious to both of us that I did not need a man to walk …
This was a guest post for the Women in Ministry Series at In a Mirror Dimly in 2012. That website is now mothballed, but I found my post in the internet archives. I’m sharing it here. As I walked out into the cool autumn air, I felt the familiar combination of elation and exhaustion. I …
I’ve been participating in a discussion at The Gospel Coalition on Why Is TCG Complementarian? There is a video and post that generated a good deal of discussion and some truly excellent comments. I tried to comment anonymously and used a fake name (Sarah Ida Shaw, my sorority’s founder – LOL!), but my avatar picture …
I’ve been following several stories this past week and trying to take it all in. There was the Chick-fil-a flap. (You can read my comments about it here and here and here.) There was the removal of a prominent Baptist Fundamentalist pastor in Indiana (here and here). (If you want to understand why some women …
Much food for thought in “Gender, race and the Pentecost: God has moved on” (updated: now gone) by Pastor Jonathan Martin. It was written in response to the recent fiasco over the Wilson and Wilson post at The Gospel Coalition. We have such a narrow view of how God is working in the church in …
Back in 2010, I wrote a series of posts exploring a woman’s freedom in Christ, focusing on the increasing number of problems I saw with the complementarian view as it was being promoted among some of its more prominent spokesmen and women. I was at the point where I could no longer call myself a …
In recent weeks much was written about the exchanges between Tim Challies and Ann Voskamp regarding Challies’ review of her book, One Thousand Gifts. He didn’t like the book, she sort of responded, and he sort of backed down when she invited his family to dinner. I will confess that I haven’t read the book. …
