Conversations about gender, both inside and outside the church, can frequently degenerate into stale and rancorous disputes in which predictable arguments are traded back and
We are not all the same. The time has come for us to honestly name the ways we are different and similar so that we
From 1979 to 2000, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was mired in conflict, with the biblicist and autonomist parties fighting openly for control. This highly
I’ve seen you do it a thousand times. You speak, but you hedge, qualify, and apologize for your words. You backtrack. You surrender. You question
Check out a follow-up list of “Four More Sexist Myths That The Church Should Reject.” We’ve all heard them. Stupid jokes and thoughtless comments. Sexist
For a little over five years, I served as a lead pastor. I loved being a head pastor, but circumstances beyond my control placed me
“What I’m about to tell you is true. Anyone who believes in me will do the works I have been doing. In fact, they will
“I am an egalitarian.” I make this statement with pride, but my journey into egalitarianism was a long one. In fact, my students are often
In January, Kristin Rosser wrote an excellent article entitled “The Consequences of Complementarianism for Men.” It began with an imaginary conversation between a complementarian husband
A common theme in biblical narrative and prophetic literature is that God aligns with those whom Walter Brueggemann calls the “dispossessed, that is, those denied