Although Nazarenes have been ordaining women to preaching ministries for their whole existence, over a hundred years now, Olivet is no hotbed of feminism. My sense for why the name change from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences worked not only for the field as a whole but also for Olivet is that […]
What follows is part one of an article that I wrote for Christians for Biblical Equality who both asked me to write it and who turned it down. Comments as to why would be appreciated. I don’t believe that “lack of space” is the real reason.
Upon the vote of the faculty on October […]
I’ve just returned from Kenya where I was a part of a 27-person team which provided health care to Kenyans who could not afford health care in their own country. We spent the first week in western Kenya at Nyengena under the auspices of Global Health Outreach and the second week in Dandora, a […]
Continuing in Julie Ingersoll’s book, Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles, the author relates the plight of female students at many evangelical seminaries and colleges (interviews conducted between 1993 and 1995 at seven schools in different parts of the U.S.). Gals outnumber guys at evangelical colleges. Some families prefer to […]
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 […]
The vast majority of what is published concerning Christian disagreements about gender, at least in academic writing, are logical explications in various spheres of study, such as theology, sociology, history, etc. An awful lot of this writing is rather dry and difficult to wade through, although bits of examples and stories about the affects […]
I recommend “Commander in Chief” on ABC TV Tuesday nights. Mackenzie Allen, the USA vice president, played by Geena Davis, becomes the first woman president of the United States by being sworn in upon the death of the president, against the president’s wishes and the leaders of his party. They’d prefer someone “more […]
There are still a few men of a certain age in this universe who ooze chauvinism out of every pore of their bodies. They fling sexist remarks around like cigarette ash litter and pat female bums as if they owned them. Half of them don’t even know they’re doing anything amiss, and the […]
Dr. Craig Keener also said that it is very dangerous politically to write on this issue of gender equality as a New Testament scholar because you are likely to get the rest of your writings marginalized by people who disagree with you on this issue. There are a number of evangelical institutions that will […]
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 […]