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) […]
Earlier in the main session, Craig Keener told how he recently got married. He had been friends with an African woman who had to flee the violence in the Congo. They had delayed getting married because of a misunderstanding about “ministry.” She had said that she did not feel called to “ministry” – meaning being […]
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 […]
The NBC Today Show reported on recent research this morning that said that 25 percent of American families have wives that earn more than their husbands. This trend is only going to increase since women have recently been graduating from college in greater numbers than men. Although more men age 25 and up […]