The Junia Project

Advocating for Women's Equality in the Church and Home

A Response to John Piper – What Does it Mean to be a Man?

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At the beginning of March one of our readers wrote in and asked this question:

“I recently watched a video regarding The Gospel Coalition’s stance on their complementarian view. In it, John Piper begins to explain that we must be able to answer children’s questions as to what it means for a boy to grow up and be a man, or for a girl to grow up into God’s model for womanhood. He states that egalitarians have never been able to answer his question. I would love to hear your response.”

This video had been making the rounds on social media, so I was familiar with what she was talking about. You see, John Piper seems to have fallen into the cultural narrative that manhood must be earned. For Piper, manhood isn’t something you simply grow into with age according to your biology. Instead, it is something you work to achieve…

Is Male Authority “Implied” in the Bible?

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in Ephesians 5:24, Greek manuscripts of the New Testament frame male authority or the submission of wives to husbands not as command, but rather as a description.

Perception and Gender Roles

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It’s probably true that nobody disagrees that men and women are different. It’s how these differences are perceived that becomes a potential source of controversy. When we consider gender roles, let’s be careful not to project onto God and the Bible assumptions that we have internalized from our own social history.

Are Christians Called to Culture War?

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Instead of simply being counter-cultural, let’s counter the fallen and broken aspects of all cultures, even Church cultures. But while we do so, let’s honor and build upon the redemptive glimpses of God that we find.

Why I Am Womanist & Feminist (and it has nothing to do with hating men)

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Now is not the time to blame women or consistently accuse us of complaining, ranting and raving and hating men. For many of us that is not the case at all. It’s just that it takes a consistent movement of change in language, systems, traditions etc. to reverse a culture of patriarchy.

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