Archives: 'The Sociological Case'

Chapter 3 in Julie Ingersoll’s book Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles is called “Conflict in the Lives of Individual Women.” Even women, she says here, who have been groomed and carefully nurtured to be put on the faculty of conservative educational institutions come to believe that’s it’s only an […]

To this point, the CBE blogging team has been providing summaries and some personal reactions to various seminars and sessions of the 2005 annual conference of the Christians for Biblical Equality. Perhaps it is time to provide some analysis and personal takes on the conference experience.
This was my first CBE conference. It was […]

It’s good for egalitarians to remind themselves that the patriarchal traditionalist scholars do teach that men are to love their wives and children and take responsibility in the family, even though we suspect that that message is not filtering down to the average guy in the pew. This month’s Mars Hill Audio (Vol 74) […]

Finally, a comprehensive scholarly book from the egalitarian position! I have been in academic circles and egalitarian circles and I had not heard that this new book is out! It is Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy. Its general editors are Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and its contributing editor is Gordon Fee […]

Having taught Mere Christianity in small group over the last year, I was not pleased with the comments C.S. Lewis makes in this book that he published early in his writing career. It was of great interest to me, then, to see this topic addressed at the CBE conference by Dr. Mary Stewart Van […]

Workshop: Opposite Sexes or Neighboring Sexes? An agenda for Gender Reconciliation
Presenter: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Ph.D.
Men and women are more like neighboring sexes than opposite sexes. We can only achieve a more just and healthy model for gender and family relations if personal and structural changes are made. The health and happiness […]

Jane Fonda has been making the rounds of TV news shows talking about her autobiography that just came out, My Life So Far. Tim Russert interviewed her for an hour this last weekend. Two things that she said about herself struck me as particularly intriguing. First, in describing herself as a feminist […]

According to Diana Garland in her Family Ministry: A Comprehensive Guide, InterVarsity Press, c1999, the definition of a companionship marriage is one where the marriage partners seek to emphasize achieving deep intimacy with each other through individual growth and self-actualization and excellent communication sharing so that their emotional needs and personal goals can be met. […]

In every marriage there comes a time when both partners want something very badly that the other does not, or the other wants something else that is mutually exclusive. These are watershed moments in a marriage. The arguments used at that time, and the way the situation is handled, is crucial to the health […]

Figuring out the direction of a marriage takes cooperation and grace, and when there is serious disagreement, the ability of both partners to listen and hear the other is of crucial importance. The argument that the male should always have the deciding vote if the disagreement is particularly difficult is the worst possible tactic […]