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How complementarianism - the belief that God assigned specific gender roles - became part of evangelical doctrine Susan M. Shaw, Oregon State University April 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Susan M. Shaw, Oregon State University (THE CONVERSATION) Prominent evangelical leader Beth Moore, who announced in March 2021 that she was leaving the Southern Baptist Convention over its treatment of women, among other issues, recently apologized for supporting the primacy of the theology of “complementa...

April 1, 2021 2:38 p.m. The founder and president of the company leading yet another audit of the 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county boosted an endless stream of nonsense about the 2020 election results on Twitter.  In a press release Wednesday, state Senate President Karen Fann said Senate leadership — in other words, Senate Republicans — had spent months interviewing various forensic auditors before selecting four firms for another audit of the elect...

24.99 By and large, American evangelical Christians have conservative views of Scripture and morality. According to theologian Matthew Barrett, however, their most basic claims about God are often remarkably revisionist. Barrett, professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and executive editor of Credo Magazine, is the author of Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit. The book—a follow-up to his 2019 work None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God—does ...

This article is part of the 5 Myths series. Myth #1: Marriage, as we know it in this age, is the final destiny of any human. My mother was killed in a bus collision near Bethlehem in Israel in 1974. She was fifty-six years old and had been married to my father for thirty-seven years. As the grief began to heal, God gave my father another wonderful wife. I rejoice in this. But it has caused me to take much more seriously the words of Jesus to the Sadducees concerning marriage in the resurrection...

Jo Dee Ahmann saw a problem in her church: another faltering startup ministry. And she believed she knew the solution: coaching. As a life coach, she realized that she had the gifts to help. “I love the process of discovery—taking disjointed thoughts, feelings, emotions, and events, and talking through it all until a way forward emerges,” she said. “I could help give that ministry the structure it needs through coaching and walk with it until it’s successfully run.” Her skills had b...

They aren’t all conservative, and abortion hasn’t always driven their politics.

William Witt analyzes a complementarian reading of Genesis 1-3 Scot McKnight Image: Unsplash The ordination of women is not mentioned, of course, in Genesis or the Old Testament. But the issues about the ordination of women begin there, and a good example of this is in the complementarian reading of Genesis 1-3 as found in Wayne Grudem. William Witt’s fifth chapter in Icons of Christ, “Beginning with Genesis,” offers a brief exposition of salient factors in Genesis 1-3 and then ...

What books have most profoundly shaped how you serve and lead others for the sake of the gospel? A handful of girlfriends and I memorized Colossians, plus a good chunk of Ephesians, a couple years ago. Getting those words into my heart and mind have had a huge effect on me. The supremacy of Christ in Colossians 1 is grounds for immeasurable comfort and joy. God’s grace displayed in these two letters has served as an antidote to self-centeredness and reminded me to be God-centered in my life, ...

Hillbilly Elegy Economics Lesson: Culture Matters  Share   Share Trending Netflix’s adaptation of J. D. Vance’s autobiography, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, is more than a rags-to-riches story. It dramatizes one the most important points in economics. For those unfamiliar with it, the summary from Wikipedia says,  “Vance describes his upbringing and family background while growing up in the city of Middletown, Ohio, the third largest city in the Cincin...

Which of these do you think actually “works” in your context? The ordination of women, or the non-ordination of women, must be waged on theological and biblical grounds. Not on stereotypes, not on gender essentialism, not on social constructs, and not on constitutional grounds. Which is why William Witt opens his book, Icons of Christ, with four very common non-theological and non-biblical arguments waged from either side. The book is worth the price just for this condensed chapter. Master...