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 …
Yesterday David and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. In light of that, I’ve been trying to think of something meaningful to write about marriage. Some women can write these flowery posts about how their marriage is a dance or whatever and I’m just not that kind of writer. I am, however, a consummate list …
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 …
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 change your way of thinking about something? I was living with that feeling for …
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 …
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21
