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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Medine Moussounga Keener’s workshop, “The African Women’s Struggle”
Medine’s personal story of life in Congo, Africa, was quite moving. She spoke from her personal experience and the experience of her friends and family.
Topics Medine covered in her workshop included women’s health, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and the devastation of war. She described how governmental corruption, war […]
Well, I go off the church board next week, and I leave with mixed emotions. When they asked me to join it three years ago, I told them that church eldership was never anything I ever sought — in fact, was something I rather dreaded. They wanted me anyway. I suppose an organization […]
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 […]