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 […]
Not as many people know Frank Schaeffer as knew his father, Francis, the early Christian Right apologist, but he’s apparently well enough known in evangelical circles to get hate mail from them. I’ve been quite taken with two of his novels, Portofino, and Zermatt. They, along with Saving Grandma, are the ongoing saga […]
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 […]
I’ve recently been called “sensitive” by a church person because of my understanding about gender equality. What? Me — sensitive? Brooding over this comment, however, made me realize there was something more here than the compliment that was intended.
Could it be that I have some great emotional insight into people’s […]
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 […]
Some of the individuals who helped found the Christians for Biblical Equality organization participated in a panel that discussed the beginning days. Participating were James Beck, Gilbert Bilezikian, Gretchen Gaebelein Hull, Nancy Graf Peters, Cathie Kroeger, and Alvera Mickelsen.
Question: What led you into the egalitarian way?
A: I watched how […]
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen’s lecture on C.S. Lewis was outstanding. Her talk, “A Sword Between the Sexes: C.S. Lewis’ Long Journey to Gender Equality” is available on CD at Equality Depot. Basically, she picked out all of Lewis’s statements on gender equality throughout his writings. Early in his career Lewis’s writings imply his […]
It has been a great encouragement to the biblical egalitarian movement to have Willow Creek Community Church demonstrate having women on the leadership team and as teaching pastors. There are also a number of outstanding evangelical PCUSA churches. The issue with PCUSA churches is not whether they are egalitarian but whether they are […]
How this CBE workshop stirred up memories of situations I have observed throughout my life time! My father became a pastor because the pastor in the liturgical church of his childhood failed to answer the pleas for help he posed regarding the terrifying tangle of incest ensnaring his brothers and sisters, and instigated by […]