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Mutual Submission: A Response to CBMW's "Soap Bubbles Submission"

By: Sarah Lindsay | April 27, 2016

A recent blog post on the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood's website titled, "Soap Bubbles Submission," caught my attention for a number of reasons. I want to respond to the author's understanding of submission as expressed in the article.

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Are You Responsible for Empowering Women?

By: Alexis Waggoner | April 27, 2016

We all have a “thing”—a certain issue, cause, or topic that can easily get us riled up and climbing up on our soapboxes. One of my “things” is building supportive communities for women in the church. So much so that, when my husband and I were at brunch with a group of friends [...]

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7 Places Where Gender-Inclusive Bible Translation Really Matters: Part 2

By: Jeff Miller | April 26, 2016

In part 1, I opened by clarifying that I sincerely believe gender-inclusive Bible translation always matters. Nevertheless, it matters more in some places than in others. I described four examples where gender-inclusive Bible translation makes a real difference. Here I list three more.

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7 Places Where Gender-Inclusive Bible Translation Really Matters: Part 1

By: Jeff Miller | April 25, 2016

People who claim that the New Testament has a masculine feel, and claim that gender-inclusive translation tactics do damage to that masculine feel, are expressing a truth about certain English translations, not a truth about the Greek New Testament.

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Justifying Injustice with the Bible: Apartheid

By: Kevin Giles | April 20, 2016

No complementarian today is willing to admit that, with Bible in hand, leading evangelical and Reformed theologians argued that slavery was instituted by God and approved by him. If they did, they might have to re-examine their argument that God has permanently subordinated women to men.

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Brave Hearts

By: Angela Hurst | April 20, 2016

Women in ministry volunteer, train others, and certainly come under “live fire." They are expected to excel in all they do. They go to ministry school, living and training under the same conditions as the men. Yet they receive less pay, if they receive any pay at all, and certainly less opportunity. 

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Helicopter Headship

By: Ashley Easter | April 19, 2016

When women and girls are patronized by helicopter headship, they are unable to develop into the strong, competent, leading individuals that they were created to be.

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Rahab The Righteous

By: Crystal Lutton | April 18, 2016

This is the first article in a series examining what Christians have been taught about women in Scripture. Growing up in the church, it seemed to me that every woman in the Old Testament was a prostitute, a victim of sexual violence, or sexually immoral in some way. I thought their lives must have [...]

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Living Post-Fall: Partners, Not Competitors

By: Sarah Ago | April 15, 2016

Our kingdom vision reminds us that we need to hold tightly to Christ’s redemptive work on the cross. No longer are we bound by the Fall or called to perpetuate the effects of it! We are called to live in a redemptive reality, which is counter to worldly division.

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Justifying Injustice with the Bible: Slavery

By: Kevin Giles | April 13, 2016

Complementarians are absolutely convinced that what they teach on the man-woman relationship is what the Bible teaches. To reject their teaching is to reject the Bible, and because the Bible is literally God's words, to reject that teaching is to disobey God himself. 

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