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Servanthood or Soft Patriarchy? A Christian Feminist Looks at the Promise Keepers Movement
By: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen | April 30, 1997
Promise Keepers has so far embraced a rhetoric of both servanthood and soft patriarchy, a position ambiguous enough to make Christian feminists of both sexes push them for greater clarity. “Promise Keepers will have to walk a narrow line,” writes seminary professor Howard Snyder, “calling for male leadership without putting down the leadership of women.”
Masculinity in Crisis: Remaining Biblical in a Changing World
By: Kaye V. Cook, Howard E. Frost | April 30, 1997
For men to move from an identity-fixed to an identity-flexible gender-role model, from macho to mature, from a career-centered to holistic self-definition, from “safe” to sharing friendships, from “give 'em hell” to nurturance and caring, is not easy. The realization that God calls us into relationship with one another, however, should challenge Christian men to [...]
Equality of Sexes in Marriage: Exposition of the Song of Songs
By: Arthur H. Lewis | April 30, 1997
The Hebrew view of marital sex, in contrast with Neoplatonism and early church, was not celibate. The Jews were never prudish about sex. The best evidence of this is the high place Solomon's Song of Songs, an ancient collection of poems on courtship and love, holds in the canon of Hebrew Scripture and in the [...]
Book Review: What Does She Want From Me Anyway? Honest Answers to the Questions Men Ask About Women
By: James R. Beck | March 5, 1997
Holly Phillips has written her book from the heart of the Promise Keepers movement (literally and figuratively). Holly is the wife of founding president Randy Phillips, has been a PK staff member from its early days, and was the first woman to address a PK rally. Her book gives us a fascinating glimpse into the [...]
What Does She Want from Me, Anyway?: Honest Answers to the Questions Men Ask About Women
By: Holly Faith Phillips, Gregg Lewis | March 4, 1997
Holly Faith Phillips has seen men transformed before her very eyes, starting with her own husband, Randy. She has seen marriages on the brink of divorce saved. She has seen outwardly appearing good marriages made genuine, and truly good marriages made great. Now, in What Does She Want from Me, Anyway?, she speaks to men [...]
From My Point of View: Men’s Psychological Barriers to Adopting an Egalitarian View
By: Chuck Romig | January 30, 1997
I have been told on a number of occasions that men who adhere to an egalitarian view of the marital relationship and who see no ministry restrictions for women in the church approach the Bible from some personal bias that keeps them from seeing the truth. What usually follows in the conversation (lecture) is armchair [...]
Passion and Belief
By: Kathy D. Colebank | January 30, 1997
I recently read a letter by a young woman struggling with the issue of women in ministry. She was torn because her father, a wonderful man of God, believed strongly that women were not to be ordained to ministry. “How can I question the beliefs of such a passionate godly man?” she asked. But [...]
The Bible, Gender, and Church Office
By: Eugene Bradford | January 30, 1997
The Bible does not allow gender to be a criterion for eligibility for any office or function in the church. Although in the Semitic/Hebrew culture the subordination of women to men was probably universal, and although there were no early explicit divine prohibitions against female subordination, the climax of special divine revelation in the [...]
Let's Keep on Ordaining Women
By: Hugh McNally | January 30, 1997
The role of women in ministry is a controversial issue in evangelical churches today. On one side are the “traditionalists” who firmly believe that women should not be permitted to teach, preach or hold any position of authority in the church. On the other side are the “biblical feminists” who firmly believe that God calls [...]
J. I. Packer and the Logic of Patriarchy
By: Curt Purcell | January 30, 1997
J. I. Packer published a short piece in Christianity Today, titled “Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters.” As the title suggests, this piece is a straightforward example of the age-old attempt to justify the treatment of women as second-class and substandard—an oppressive gesture, even if unintended as such. However, if [...]