Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Summer 2026
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Mutuality offers articles from diverse writers who share egalitarian theology and explore its intersection with everyday life.
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Summer 2026
Volume: 33 | Number: 2
The "S" Word: Understanding Submission
As the articles in this issue discuss, submission, rightly understood, does not operate on the basis of domination, oppression, voicelessness, or control. Each article thoughtfully seeks to understand what submission is—and isn’t—according to the Bible.
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As the articles in this issue discuss, submission, rightly understood, does not operate on the basis of domination, oppression, voicelessness, or control. Each article thoughtfully seeks to understand what submission is—and isn’t—according to the Bible.
Submission is often associated with coercion and control; the church must understand the difference between biblical submission and unbiblical subjugation.
Social media enables ideas to be shared in accessible, bite-sized formats; but when these sound bites take the place of sound principles, ideas that sound romantic or appealing on the surface may lead us away from biblical truth.
Paul’s metaphor of the church as a living body provides important insights into the nature of submission.
Reading 1 Peter through purely modern eyes can lead us to miss out on just how radical Peter's teachings really were.
Leadership and submission are often set against each other as incompatible opposites; the leadership exemplified by Jesus brings them together and reframes how we understand them both.
While secular culture may presume and assert authority based on the presumed superiority of gender, race, and class, marriages and churches flourish when all believers submit mutually and equally to each other out of love and respect based on scriptures like Gal 3:28—a text foreshadowed in the creation account.