On the SBC Sidewalk
While messengers to last week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention debated how to treat churches with women in pastoral roles, Baptist Women in Ministry showed up to offer a counter witness.
With Keller’s Death, ‘Young, Restless, and Reformed’ New Calvinists Are at a Crossroads
The Reformed resurgence swept through evangelicalism in the early 2000s, fueled by Calvinism, charisma, and complementarianism. Despite the fall of a number of leaders, the movement retains staying power.
Unsettling Advent 2022, Day 23
Angela Parker from Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology writes about the time that a complementarian invited her to lunch. Thinking through the genealogy in Matthew’s Gospel and Ware’s re-imagination makes her ask how certain segments of Christianity still stifle women’s ministry.
Well-Intentioned Patriarchs Are Still Patriarchs
Liz Cooledge Jenkins unpacks the hypocrisy in voicing support for Iranian women who protest oppressive patriarchy in their context while remaining strangely silent about oppressive patriarchy — and even hostile to those who speak up against it — in our own U.S. context. People in
How God’s Pronouns & the CBMW Might Save Beth Allison Barr’s Church
A small Baptist church in Texas received more than $15,000 in donations after a conservative group criticized the congregation’s website for supposedly using the wrong pronouns for God.
Jessica Johnson on Mark Driscoll & Mars Hill
In episode 15 of Dangerous Dogma, Jessica Johnson, a visiting scholar in religious studies at the College of William & Mary, talks about her book 'Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll's Evangelical Empire.'
The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood
How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within. Read full piece
Beth Allison Barr Wants Christians to Know Where ‘Biblical Womanhood’ Comes From (it’s Not the Bible)
Beth Allison Barr, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, talks about where the idea of biblical womanhood comes from, what she believes the Bible actually has to say about the role of women, and what it will take for things to change.
‘The Making Of Biblical Womanhood’ Tackles Contradictions In Religious Practice
White evangelical women are often taught that their calling is to be passive in the church, to be submissive to their husbands and to stay out of the pulpit. History, though, says otherwise. Read full piece
Now Beth Moore is Taking on Patriarchy in the Church
Just a month after making headlines by announcing her departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, popular author and Bible teacher Beth Moore launched a second salvo against the male-dominated leadership of the SBC. Read full piece
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