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Paul’s Masculine and Feminine Leadership

March 24, 2014 by Margaret Mowczko

Some Christians believe that being a leader is a man’s role, and that it is unfeminine for women to be in leadership. These Christians dismiss female leaders mentioned in the Bible as rare exceptions and anomalies. Does the Bible teach that leadership is masculine? Or that leadership is unfeminine?

Filed Under: women in church leadership Tagged With: 1 Thessalonians, Apostle Paul and women, complementarianism, Deborah in the Bible, leadership in the church, Moses in the Bible

How I Became A Christian Feminist

February 26, 2014 by Kate Hickman

It seems that in many Christian communities being a “biblical man” or a “biblical woman” is just as high of a priority, if not more so, than being a biblical person. How did we come to the conclusion that men and women are to imitate Christ in different ways? I’d like to know where people see Jesus mentioning or even emphasizing that a man’s highest calling is to be a leader and a decision-maker, and a woman’s highest calling is to be a nurturer and “advice-giver”. From what I know about the life of Jesus, he called us to love God and love others selflessly. That’s all Jesus seemed to really care about.

Filed Under: feminism, Personal Stories Tagged With: biblical manhood, biblical womanhood, complementarianism, egalitarianism, feminism, gender equality, Jesus and Women, marriage, sexism in the church

Lost In Translation: Phoebe, Servant or Minister?

September 9, 2013 by Bob Edwards

Phoebe in the Bible

Though inequality makes some of my complementarian friends uneasy, they hold fast to their beliefs nonetheless. They do this, some tell me, because they must remain true to the word of God, even if it makes them uncomfortable. On one level, I think their steadfast loyalty to the Bible is commendable…In the case of a complementarian belief system, however, I think loyalty to God and his word has been misappropriated.

Filed Under: Women and the Bible, Women and the Church Tagged With: complementarianism, diakonos in the bible, egalitarianism, Phoebe in the Bible, prostatis in the bible, Romans 16

Submission: A Personal Story

August 29, 2013 by Kate Wallace Nunneley

Submission

What he had always been told he deserved
What he expected from me, with nothing in return
But it was not mine to give, not in the way he asked for it
Because I had already given that kind to someone else
To the One who had died for me on a cross

Filed Under: marriage and family, Personal Stories Tagged With: complementarianism, egalitarianism, gender equality, marriage, submission in the bible

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