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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 states and responds to Grudem’s reading of Genesis 1-3. He’s right: the creation account is used...

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, as well as in my serving and leading of others.  Along those same lines, reading John Piper’s 

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 Cincinnati metropolitan area. He writes about a family history of poverty and low-paying, physical jobs th...

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. Mastery of this chp alone will thwart many an argument, and turn the debate into a conversation about legi...