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Forget the Husband Trump Card: Why Couples Should Make Decisions Together
By: Camden Morgante | June 26, 2019
A “husband trump card” can be an excuse to not do the important relational work of communicating with each other, compromising, and resolving conflict together. It can also foster a dangerous power imbalance in marriages, making husbands and wives opponents instead of partners.
Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts
By: Andrew Bartlett | May 14, 2019
The debate concerning gender roles in the church and in marriage continues to divide Christians. Can the gap be bridged between complementarians and egalitarians?
Marriage Ideology and Decision-Making
By: Susan Harris Howell, Bethany Lester, Alayna Owens | October 31, 2018
This article reports on a study of the ideologies and decision-making of Christian married couples. We specifically explored the beliefs these couples held regarding decision-making at the beginning of their marriages, those they currently hold, and what prompted any changes in those beliefs across time.
Christian Women’s Beliefs on Female Subordination and Male Authority
By: Susan Harris Howell, Kristyn Duncan | October 31, 2018
Why would a woman espouse an ideology that consigns her to a less-than status? Howell and Duncan surveyed 72 women to explore the rationale behind women’s beliefs in the subordination of women to the authority of men.
Growing Healthy and Equal Marriage Partnerships (Finnish, English)
By: Lynley Giles | October 26, 2018
This workshop explores how to grow a marriage relationship in which both parties have a voice and decisions are made jointly.
Complementarianism: A Separate-But-Equal Knockoff
By: Mitch Carnell | October 25, 2018
Complementarianism is nothing more than the old argument of “separate but equal” applied to gender roles and dressed in a type of theological clothing. This is the same argument earlier generations used to justify segregation of the races.
What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women
By: Kevin Giles | October 18, 2018
Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women, he gives the most comprehensive account to date of the competing conclusions to this question and the issues surrounding it.
When Gender Roles Don’t Work: How One Couple and Their Sons Became Egalitarians
By: Jodi Hansen, David Hansen | September 5, 2018
We spent many years of our marriage and raised our sons in a church that sought to form men into manly Christian leaders and women into submissive followers. Thankfully, we realized that model didn’t make sense for our marriage or for our sons.
Book Review: Worthy: Finding Yourself in a World Expecting Someone Else
By: Lori Buckle | February 27, 2018
In her book, Worthy: Finding Yourself in a World Expecting Someone Else, Melanie Springer Mock critiques the Christian culture which labels people and puts them into boxes. She then affirms God’s heart for every individual by emphasizing how much he loves them, regardless of what the world might think. She shares many experiences from [...]
Priscilla and Aquila Model Marriage "More Accurately"
By: Katrina Armas | January 29, 2018
If you’ve spent any time in church (or in the New Testament text) you’ve heard of the famous couple, Priscilla and Aquila.