A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor’s Husband
The Junia Project recently published an article written by my wife entitled, A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor. The unfortunate…
A Day in the Life of a Female Pastor
Most mornings I wake up to a certain heaviness in my body. I feel it from the inside out. It is as if…
This Chair: One Woman’s Journey to Seminary
Northern Seminary student Megan Westra recently posted a reflection on Facebook about starting classes for her Master of Divinity degree. We asked her…
Why 1 Timothy 2:8-15 Does Not Ban Women from Teaching & Having Authority in the Church
From the mailbox: "Just wanted to say thank you for your article on 1 Timothy 2. It was a great reference for me…
10 Reasons Why Men Should Not Be Pastors
"A man's place is in the army." So starts David M. Scholer's satirical list of reasons why men shouldn't be pastors. Most of…
Thoughts From a Feminist Asian Dad
I’m a feminist. But I haven’t always been. Through much of my life I’ve been a pretty nice guy – thoughtful, sensitive to…
Do I Stay or Do I Leave? A Dilemma for Women in the Church
Earlier this year we shared a guest post titled "Why I'm at a Church That Doesn't Support Gender Equality". The post led to…
4 Truths About Women in the Church
Sometimes I find it amusing that our churches of today seem to be more anti-women than the Bible is. We doubt women’s ability…
Stumbling Over Women: Stones of Remembrance
On a recent tour of Germany I came across the Stolpersteine Project. Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small brass-plated blocks or stones embedded into…
Egalitarian Marriage: More Than An Equal Division of Roles
On the third Wednesday of each month I set up camp in a conference room at the hospital where I work. I set…
Why Women Make Excellent Church Planters
Most church planting conferences, books, and leaders that I interact with assume that church planters will be male. Moreover, there are some movements…
Directing Godspell with a Female Jesus
“Do you care if Jesus is a righty or a lefty?” Jasmine Myers asks during a rehearsal for Godspell. She’s just finished…
An Egalitarian Engagement and Wedding: One Couple’s Story
It's wedding season! Today Katie Manning shares some creative ways she and her husband, Jon, applied their egalitarian values to the engagement and…
What Does It Mean for Women to Learn in Quietness and Submission? 1 Timothy 2:11
They are the verses of Scripture used most frequently to silence women in the church: 1 Timothy 2:11-12. I remember reading them as…
Reading Scripture as an Egalitarian: The Big Picture
In today's post Patrick Franklin presents egalitarian theology in a nutshell. He writes, "In order to understand difficult passages of Scripture, including the…