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Culture and Tradition
By: Martine Extermann | November 12, 2008
Biblical egalitarians are often accused of “conforming to the world,” of importing worldly patterns into the church, and of attempting to take the church away from biblical truth. The passages above, and others like them, provide a strong basis to answer this accusation. Conforming to the world or holding to religious tradition can both be [...]
Refusing to be Ministered to
By: H. Edgar Hix | November 11, 2008
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! [...]
Jesus and Women
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 5, 2008
Do you wonder why the words and deeds of Christ are not given more attention in the current gender debate? If all of Scripture points to Jesus, and if Jesus’ treatment of women was radically different from his culture, even his religious culture, how do the life and words of Christ inform us today? For [...]
Book Review: Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective
By: Mark Mathis | October 31, 2008
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson writes a compelling outline of Christian feminism that serves as a valuable tool for the average evangelical seeking more refined and informed thinking about gender from a biblical perspective.
Book Review: Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, and Mimi Haddad's Global Voices on Biblical Equality
By: KeumJu Jewel Hyun | October 31, 2008
Global Voices on Biblical Equality opens with a poem To Prisca and Aquila, which ends, "Gemstones of God, buried in stony, multicultural mines." This book is about "gemstones of God," women ministering together with men in the church worldwide. Global Voices embraces a wide range of cultures and traditions, examines the gender discriminations deeply rooted [...]
Editor's Reflections | Autumn 2008 (22.4)
By: William David Spencer | October 30, 2008
The Book of Genesis opens with the words: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (my trans.). Since God is eternal, what “beginning” can the text be discussing? Certainly not God’s. God is always existing, which is a concept absolutely inconceivable to us finite creatures who know only beginnings and endings, [...]
The Trinity and Gender
By: Gary W. Deddo | October 30, 2008
Does the doctrine of the Trinity shed any light on why God created us as human beings with gender? Any consideration of the relationship of men and women must fall, first, under the more universal constraints of all Christian discipleship. The ethic of love must undergird any and every other ethical obligation of men and [...]
Women Sharing in the Ministry of God
By: Patrick S. Franklin | October 30, 2008
Though the freedom of women to be leaders in the church has increased in recent years, patriarchy continues to exercise considerable influence within contemporary evangelicalism. Evangelical patriarchy maintains that certain ministry positions in the church are inappropriate for women and should be restricted to men. In particular, women should not operate in positions of [...]
The Holy Spirit, Neglected Person of the Trinity, and Women’s Leadership
By: Pam Morrison | October 30, 2008
The entire Bible refers to the ministry of the Holy Spirit and to the triune nature of the God we worship; however, in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit’s influence moves from being for particular people at particular times, as in the Old Testament, to a pouring out on all flesh. The opening events [...]
The Logic of Equality
By: Adam Omelianchuk | October 30, 2008
On an Internet discussion in which I participated, one hierarchist stated essentially that women should not be encouraged to preach because, by doing so, they would “dishonor God.” Indeed, this conclusion is entailed by the patriarchal position: according to God’s creational ordinance, a woman is forbidden the “role” whereby she might speak publicly and [...]