By Henry Neufeld
Well, really only some Seventh-day Adventists, in particular, Pastor Doug Batchelor and the Amazing Facts ministry versus the Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. As a former SDA, I still keep track of SDA doings, in this case through the Spectrum blog, and what interested me was the role reversal.
We frequently see [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I found this story appalling. In making decisions about a Christian school and whether the principal should be fired, women were not even allowed to speak.
While I do believe that a denomination or local church should have the right to do what it believes is right with a school it finances, including [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I already responded to one post by Michael Patton on this topic (Am I a Complementarian?), but he followed this up with a question. I have been so busy with the release of my latest book (co-authored with Geoffrey Lentz) that I have fallen well behind the progress of this topic, but I [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Michael Patton has taken it upon himself to define both complementarianism and egalitarianism and I think he gets it almost completely wrong. Now I must note that I really like reading Michael Patton’s blog posts and I think he writes with an irenic tone that promotes Christian unity, and in the end he [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Read the full story on The Christian Post.
This is an interesting development, especially considering the region involved.
By Henry Neufeld
In his post next time, don’t invite the baptists, Bruce Alderman provides a link to a very unfortunate case in which a Lutheran pastor is put down by a local Baptist church because she is a woman.
Let me note here that I am personally acquainted with Baptists who oppose women in pastoral [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Ben Witherington is taking on Biblical arguments against women in ministry in an article titles Why Arguments against Women in Ministry Aren’t Biblical. (HT: Dr. Platypus.)
I personally find his first and second arguments quite good, while I tend to be less convinced by his arguments regarding the specific texts. It seems to [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Christopher Smith has written a three part series on chauvinistic passages in the Bible. The passages are:
1 Corinthians 11:3-16 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 1 Timothy 2:11-15
In general I agree with what he writes, though I think the balance of evidence is slightly in favor of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35. I tended the other [...]
By Henry Neufeld
I want to tie up a few loose ends in my first post on this series as well as point out some things on which I will need to comment further. In particular, I read this post by John Hobbins that references a post by Wayne Leman regarding complementarianism and the “plain sense” [...]
By Henry Neufeld
Via Aristotle’s Feminist Subject, I found the story of the “True Woman” movement. See their manifesto as well.
Earlier today, John Hobbins was calling for “respectful dialogue” as the “need of the hour.” I like John Hobbins, and he displays great wisdom. Respectful dialogue is both needed and rarely to be had.
Unfortunately, [...]
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