People who believe strict gender roles in marriage are biblical sometimes compare them to partnered dancing. This article challenges that understanding of both dance and marriage, crediting to the real Choreographer.
KEEP READINGFriends are equals, and to lay down my life for my wife I also need to see her as my friend, as my equal, including in our circumstances today.
KEEP READINGCertainty that your loved one will treat you as an equal ought to be a given, but we all know that not every church teaches the importance or even legitimacy of egalitarian marriage. How could I be assured that this was as important to the man proposing as it was to me?
KEEP READINGThe marriage guidance in Ephesians 5, rather than subjecting wives, is aimed at bringing the freedom of true Christian community into our homes.
KEEP READINGI know that lack of sex and consent education harmed my husband’s and my sex life in the early years of our marriage. But as I look back, I realize that’s only one side of the coin. The other was biblical illiteracy.
KEEP READINGMarriage in the Middle will inspire and encourage you to invest in your relationship with your spouse, enabling you both to thrive as you face the challenges and changes of this era together.
KEEP READINGI would not recommend this book to someone who is firmly egalitarian. If someone is just starting to examine gender assumptions in a complementarian environment, this book may be a potential resource.
KEEP READINGAndrew Bartlett’s Men and Women in Christ is a tremendously helpful contribution to the debate that rages in evangelicalism over the “roles” of women.
KEEP READINGThis article will consider how the coming of the kingdom of God provides “an alternative ordering of society” regarding women in community and leadership
KEEP READINGLife would have been easier, at least outwardly, if we had followed complementarian theology. We might have stayed at our church.
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