Archives: 'Christian Egalitarianism'

Ho, ho! The Feminist Mormon Housewives blog has finally taken up the subject of sex in Mormon families in a posting called Sex Talk. Comments approaching 250.

Andy Rowell noticed three thought-provoking blog posts among 20/30-something bloggers. Below the links are listed and then his summary of some of their practical suggestions.
http://www.generousorthodoxy.net/thinktank/2006/02/more_on_women.html
http://www.thursdaypm.org/blog/rachelle/20060117/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/
http://www.generousorthodoxy.net/thinktank/2006/02/book_discussion.html
The List
1. Be intentional about quoting females.
2. Be an encourager and advocate to women who are working with you and under you.
3. Provide scholarships for women […]

My denomination, the Reformed Church in America, permitted the ordination of women in 1979, and although over 200 women have been graduated from their seminaries since then, not many get pastorates or other Christian leadership positions. Kristine Veldheer, in “Finding Affirmation,” Church Herald, June 1989, p. 29, said the following: “The greatest frustration […]

Traditionalists have been railing ever since the 1960’s that feminism causes both males and females to lose their sexual identity. Everything from unisex clothing to — horror-of-horrors — unisex bathrooms were seen as confusing everyone until they didn’t know what sex they were anymore. This simply hasn’t happened. Yes, a few men […]

“Sometimes it is virtually impossible to translate a Greek word into a precise English equivalent or to show the force of the verb tenses,” says historian Ruth Tucker. Since the word “learn” in I Timothy 2:11 is in the imperative tense, the NIV translation of “should learn,” while good, may not be strong enough. […]

I Timothy 5:3-16 has practical advice on how to care for widows, young and old. Few if any churches these days follow this advice because they know that the advice was for that time and place. And yet the practical advice in I Timothy 2:11-12 (women should keep quiet in church, probably because […]

Quite a large percentage of Christian churches are not very open to winning the lost to Christ. They set up all sorts of barriers that put seekers off, including weird sub-cultural behaviors and even stranger theological interpretations based on non-understanding of ancient cultures, or worse, on just their own sub-cultures and ways of understanding […]

Andy Rowell has posted a couple of excellent bibliographies regarding women in ministry on his blog:
Bibliography of Books - Egalitarian and Complementarian
Bibliography of Commentaries on the Problem Passages

Here’s some interesting information about the PCA and women in leadership from my friend Andy.
The bottom line is that PCA denomination is solidly complementarian — restricting women from being elders and preaching — but they have theologically trained women from their own seminaries who do not know how and where to use their gifts, and […]

Jesus seems like a pretty out-front guy, not particularly enamored with the status quo or afraid to do something new and shocking. Why didn’t he choose a woman to be among his twelve?
This is a fair question because Jesus related to women as equals and women were certainly among his most devoted disciples and […]