Who’s in Charge? Questioning Our Common Assumptions About Spiritual Authority
Introduction and thesis Who has authority and who does not? This question drives many debates in the church today, and the conclusions drawn from it
June 23, 2014
Type of Resource: Academic Article
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Calvin, Nature, and Women
Introduction When we say, “We are persuaded from Scripture that masculinity and femininity are rooted in who we are by nature,”1 what do we mean
June 23, 2014
Social Science Studies Cannot Define Gender Differences
As unwitting children of the Enlightenment, we seem to have a Tower of Babel–like craving for absolute certainty. And so both sides in the debate
June 23, 2014
Year Zero
Pardon this mother, sir, but I’m not leaving. Most people seem to think He came to the world looking like that: a grown thirty-three-year-old man
June 17, 2014
The Annunciation, Anna, and Luke’s Egalitarianism
No synoptic gospel mentions more about females than Luke. Alfred Plummer referred to Luke’s gospel as the “Gospel of Women.”1 Half of Luke’s gospel is
June 17, 2014
Does 1 Timothy 2 Prohibit Women from Teaching, Leading, and Speaking in the Church?
The woman taught once, and ruined all. – John Chrysostom1 First Timothy 2:9–15 is a difficult passage to interpret, and there are many opinions about
June 17, 2014
Jesus and Paul on Women: Incomparable or Compatible?
Introduction Several years ago, a book that I edited appeared in print under the title Jesus and Paul Reconnected: Fresh Pathways into an Old Debate.1
June 17, 2014
An Examination of Jesus’s View of Women through Three Intercalations in the Gospel of Mark
Introduction A basic tenet in the hermeneutics of theology is to build a doctrine upon the clearer, or less disputed, passages and then interpret the
June 17, 2014
Editor’s Reflections | Summer 2013 (27.3)
The dream of every truly Christian parent is to raise godly offspring—children who live wholeheartedly for Christ no matter what the cost. This dream was
June 10, 2014
Mary Waiting on Easter Morning
Like Mary waiting on Easter morning regretting a dream she thought was dead in a world whence God had seemingly fled leaving her weeping, perplexed,
June 9, 2014