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Did Adam Sin by Failing to Lead and Protect Eve in the Garden?
By: Mike Davis | July 4, 2024
One of the things I have noticed is that Adam’s sin in the Garden is often portrayed as not only eating from the forbidden tree but also as abdicating his leadership and protection of Eve. But when we look more carefully at the text of Genesis 2:16–3:17, we can see that such conclusions are wrong.
Book Review: The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife
By: Mikaela Bell | June 25, 2024
In her memoir and cautionary tale, The Woman They Wanted, Shannon Harris details the decades of spiritual abuse she experienced and her eventual escape.
The Perfect Storm: Recovering from Shipwreck in Structural Sexism
By: Jazmine Lawrence | June 23, 2024
You who do this healing work are the hands and feet of Jesus, resetting broken rudders––that is, informing consciences to bring women in ministry into safe havens––and coaxing wrecked ships back into action, not only to stay afloat but to thrive in community with the body of Christ: thank you!
Home, Church, and World: Beyond Headship Dysfunction: Best Practices in Co-Pastoring a Church with Michele and Mark Benson
By: Tara Korpi, Todd Korpi, Michele Benson, Mark Benson | June 14, 2024
In this episode of Mutuality Matters, hosts Tara and Todd Korpi welcome Pastors Mark and Michelle Benson, co-lead pastors from Dothan Assembly in Alabama. Mark and Michelle share their journey of co-pastoring, highlighting the biblical call for gender equality in leadership.
#SilenceIsNotSpiritual: 8 Ways to Disrupt Abuse
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | June 13, 2024
The pervasiveness of abuse was made evident with the #MeToo movement this year and awareness swelled as Christians added their voices with #ChurchToo and the more recent #SilenceIsNotSpiritual—a statement calling the church to end silence on gender-based violence.
Book Review: The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes
By: Becky Castle Miller | June 12, 2024
In The Toxic War on Masculinity, Nancey Pearcey correctly diagnoses many of the problems with modern American culture, but fails to offer an effective solution.
Do Egalitarians Believe Women and Men Are Interchangeable?
By: Retha Faurie | May 30, 2024
Don’t you sometimes wish you could help people understand you better? Or at least that, when disagreeing with you, they would engage your actual arguments and not straw-man versions of them? Today, I want to draw little pictures to help correct a common misconception about egalitarianism: the idea that we think men and women [...]
Leading Together in Christ: A Biblical View of Authority
By: Dawn Gentry | May 23, 2024
Paul sets an example for us to practice humility and deference to the needs of others. He did not seek power over others or claim a position of status. Paul encourages the church to treat each other like family. He did not press into his God-given authority, but rather served alongside many other co-workers—both [...]
Home, Church, and World: What is Headship Theology? Part 2 with Andrew Bartlett and Terran Williams
By: Tara Korpi, Todd Korpi, Andrew Bartlett, Terran Williams | May 17, 2024
This two-part episode is the second in a new segment of the Mutuality Matters podcast, hosted by Tara and Todd Korpi. In this segment we discuss headship theology––dynamics of power, authority, and women and men, and how they function in Christian homes, the local church and society as a whole.
The Image of God as a Statement of Mutuality: An Illustration
By: Aaron K. Husband | April 29, 2024
Aaron Husband explains, using the analogy of a male-female pair appointed as co-directors of a Christian event, how the complementarian hierarchical position is incompatible with the concept of humanity—male and female—as bearers of the divine image.