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About Mark Kubo

is a graduate of Pacific Union College (Angwin, CA) with a degree in Computer Science. He worked as a software engineer in PC and network security for twelve years before moving to Southeast Alaska to pastor a church in the Norwegian-founded town of Petersburg. Mark is also a photographer, and serves as Secretary for the local Ministerial Association. He is married with two grown daughters and three cats.

On 1 Corinthians 14 & Women’s Silence in Church

July 17, 2014 by Mark Kubo

It is all too easy for the loudest and most prolific voices to dominate what a young Christian hears about gender relationships in the Christian church and family.

My twenties were found during the 1990’s. Looking back on that era now, it seems like there was a considerable amount of effort directed toward Christian men to “reclaim” what it meant to be a godly man. As a young husband and father, I recall going through parenting workshops and reading family and parenting books emphasizing ideas I now understand to be based on patriarchy and complementarianism to varying degrees.

On the surface these ministries, classes, and books made quite a bit of sense to a young Christian wanting to live right and “biblically.” And I was almost taken in by them. Almost. But there were things that continued to bother me. They taught what appeared to be a singular vision for what a godly man, a godly woman, and a godly family looks like. The implication was that anything else was less than the biblical model.

For over a decade I didn’t know what to do with the discomfort I felt about what was taught to me as the traditions of gender and family in the church. Then a few years ago I began to encounter blogs and books showing there are other ways that Christians interpret and apply biblical texts, including those dealing with gender.

Filed Under: Bible translation & interpretation, General, Women and the Bible, Women and the Church, women in church history, women in the new testament Tagged With: 1 Corinthians 14, Apostle Paul and women

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