Archives: 'Sexism'

Quite a large percentage of Christian churches are not very open to winning the lost to Christ. They set up all sorts of barriers that put seekers off, including weird sub-cultural behaviors and even stranger theological interpretations based on non-understanding of ancient cultures, or worse, on just their own sub-cultures and ways of understanding […]

Andy Rowell has posted a couple of excellent bibliographies regarding women in ministry on his blog:
Bibliography of Books - Egalitarian and Complementarian
Bibliography of Commentaries on the Problem Passages

Here’s some interesting information about the PCA and women in leadership from my friend Andy.
The bottom line is that PCA denomination is solidly complementarian — restricting women from being elders and preaching — but they have theologically trained women from their own seminaries who do not know how and where to use their gifts, and […]

Believers in Christian manhood and womanhood would like us all to believe that there is something about masculinity as it is lived out in America that is crucial to Christianity. What it means to be masculine, however, varies from culture to culture, and has no business being inserted into Christian theology. There are […]

Over the past two decades, an extremely aggressive and clamorous battle of Biblical scholars has occurred over the meaning of one word in I Timothy 2:12: the Greek word authentein, which is translated as “usurp authority” in the KJV, as “have authority” in the NIV, as “assume authority” in the TNIV, and as “domineer […]

Guess who recently said this: “Male chauvinism has been the major problem through much of history. For most cultures through most of history the most serious deviation from biblical standards regarding men and women has not been feminism, but harsh and oppressive male chauvinism. It still exists today, not only in some […]

The Danvers Statement states that “both Adam and Eve were created in God’s image, equal before God as persons and and distinct in their manhood and womanhood.” Note that this heirarchical/complementarian basic statement of belief does not say that men and women were equally created in the image of God, but are only equal […]

I can imagine that this question is not liked by many people, but it is a great question. It’s at the center of what this blog site is about. Could God really be at the center of slights that women suffer all over the world just because He, the ultimate authority, said […]

“Dear God,
Are boys better than girls?
I know you are one,
but try to be fair.”
From Eric Marshall and Stuart Hample, eds., Children’s Letters to God (New York: Pocket Books, 1966); quoted in Reader’s Digest, March 1967, p. 97; quoted in Ruth A. Tucker, Women in the Maze: Questions & Answers on Biblical Equality (Downers Grove, Illinois: […]

My son-in-law sent me a Web link to the Assemblies of God Women in Ministry page. While pentacostals and charismatics also struggle with the truth of egalitarian approaches to church and family, there has for a very long time been a strong support of women within their churches and theology that many evangelical churches […]