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How to Teach Mutuality to the Next Generation
By: Kensi Duszynski | December 15, 2021
Gender stereotypes and cultural conditioning make healthy male-female relationships difficult. As parents, mentors, and other parental figures, it’s our responsibility to teach and model mutuality to the next generation.
Women and Men Leading Together: Co-Pastoring While Married with Jeff and April Fiet
By: Rob Dixon, April Fiet | October 29, 2021
Putting their 14 years of co-leading to work, the Fiets provide a long and helpful litany of practical tips for joyful and sustainable ministry partnerships between spouses.
How Hierarchical Marriage Harms Husbands as Well as Wives
By: Susanne Maynes | September 15, 2021
Hierarchical marriage roles often give husbands an inflated sense of power and importance, but also leave them overwhelmed and exhausted. Husbands end up carrying a burden God intends husbands and wives to share.
Selfless Marriage: Ephesians 5:21–33
By: Chris Loewen | July 31, 2021
The application is very basic, and its message is so practical. When we look at the marriage between Christ and the church, the secret ingredient is selflessness—it is selfless love.
The Old Testament Marriage That Showed Me Equality Is God’s Design
By: Carrye Burr | July 14, 2021
When talking about marriage, Christians often focus on the New Testament. Rarely mentioned is the Old Testament couple Manoah and his wife, parents to Samson, who offer us a glimpse at God's design for marriage.
Why Egalitarianism Is Good for My Sons
By: Karl J. Baker | June 16, 2021
We know theological patriarchy hurts women, but what about men? In this blog, the author argues theological patriarchy hurts men too, and he explains why he is raising his sons to be egalitarians.
Logical Leadership
By: Lynne Babbitt | June 9, 2021
Stereotypes say women are too emotional to lead, while men are clear and logical leaders. But when we look at the Bible, we find that these stereotypes are not only incorrect, they are also unbiblical.
Leading Together: Lessons From Sharing Leadership in Ministry and Marriage
By: LeAnn Van Cleef-Trimmer | June 2, 2021
We believe in women and men’s shared leadership in marriage and ministry, but what does this look like in practice? Here are some lessons from one woman’s shared ministry leadership with her husband.
Kephale is a Body Part: Unified Interdependence in Relationship in Ephesians 5
By: Christy Hemphill | April 30, 2021
The primary task when considering Paul's assertion, “the husband is the head of the wife,” should be discovering the meaning of this head-and-body metaphor, not arguing for an extended metaphorical sense of half of the metaphor—the single word, "head."
The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women: Are They Related in Any Way?
By: Jonathan Tysick | April 30, 2021
Answering his title question in the affirmative, Giles forcefully argues that “headship teaching can encourage and legitimate domestic abuse and it must be abandoned if domestic abuse is to be effectively countered in our churches.”