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Race and Gender Discrimination in the Church

Hierarchical complementarians don’t like it when Christian egalitarians (like myself) compare their views with racism, but I can’t help seeing the similarities.

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Interpretations and Applications of 1 Corinthians 14:34–35

Here are summaries of a range of interpretations of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 proposed by well-known New Testament scholars. How do these verses apply today?

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The Lost Drachma by James Tissot-Overall; Brooklyn Museum. (wikimedia)

Is God Male or Masculine?

God is often referred to with masculine pronouns and masculine terms in the Bible. Does this mean God is male or masculine?

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Righteousness and Justification - Philippians 3:9

At the Foot of the Cross?

Do we place our sins and troubles at the metaphorical “foot of the cross”? Or do we hand them over to God the Father through the real, resurrected, and exalted Jesus Christ?

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Phoebe Palmer

Phoebe Palmer: The Mother of the Holiness Movement

Phoebe Palmer was the most influential woman in the American Methodist Church at a time when it was the largest Christian denomination in America. Her adult life was full of astonishing achievements in ministry.

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“Biblical Manhood” that Overlooks and Ignores Women

Complementarian Jeff Robinson relates what he considers to be different expressions of ‘biblical manhood’. Do these activities and qualities really constitute ‘biblical manhood’? And where do women fit with this?

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Double Standards in the Promotion of Submission

Why aren’t the biblical concepts of wifely submission and submission to governing authorities given equal emphasis in the church?

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Glory, Joy, and Suffering – 1 Peter 1:4-9

Peter reminds his audience of their glorious inheritance and that experiencing trials will prove faith which is of greater worth than gold.

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Peter’s Greeting – 1 Peter 1:1-3

In these few verses, Peter makes some remarkable statements and reveals that each member of the Trinity has a role in salvation. We have a role too.

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Samson's mother

Reading the Bible with a Masculinist Bias

Do you read the Bible through “blue-tinted” lenses? My friend Norman does. He completely ignored Samson’s mother when retelling Judges 13.

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Old Testament Priests & New Covenant Ministers

The fact that only men were permitted to serve as priests in the Old Testament is sometimes used to argue that women cannot be church leaders. There are several significant shortcomings in this argument.

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Canaanite woman Matthew's Gospel

Why God is Sometimes Silent

Even though a Canaanite woman was crying out for help, Jesus didn’t say a word. Why was Jesus silent? And why does God sometimes seem silent and remote?

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More Scary Women of Complementarianism

Mary Kassian recently posted an article on her website about “Scary Straw Women of Complementarity”. But she failed to mention two important women of complementarianism.

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Is Complementarianism a Traditional Belief of the Church?

Mary Kassian claims that Complementarianism represents the Church’s “traditional, orthodox, historic belief” on gender. She must be reading different accounts of Church history to me.

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“Nous”: Using your Spiritual Noggin

Ever heard of the theological concept of “nous”? I decided to write a few lines about it.

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Wayne Grudem on What Women Should Do in the Church

In a 1995 article, Wayne Grudem ranked 83 ministries in order of decreasing authority. His lists reveal whether he really thinks men and women are equal.

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An Introduction to Peter’s First Letter

An introduction to 1 Peter looking at who the letter was written by, who it was written to, where it was written from, as well as its major themes.

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Book of Acts, Pentecost

Speaking in Tongues and Xenoglossia

Here is an overview of scriptures that mention speaking in tongues with a very brief account of the beginning of the Pentecostal Movement which began in 1900. And I describe my personal experience with xenoglossia.

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1 Peter: Aims of our Bible Study

Here are some of my personal hopes and aims for our group as we study 1 Peter together.

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The ESV Bible’s Men-only Club

Out of the almost 100 theologians and scholars who contributed to the ESV Study Bible not one of them was a woman. They were all men!

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Is motherhood the highest calling for women?

Is motherhood the highest calling for women? Is fatherhood the highest calling for men? What did Jesus have to say about this?

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