Tag: women
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The Holy Household: Ephesians 5
In this series: As I start this third post, I hope to be much more succinct that my first two. Ephesians 5 is often used as the central text regarding the marriage in the complementarian home. In this text, husbands are exhorted to love their wives as Christ loved the church. This means even dying…
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Revisiting 1 Timothy 2
In this series: In the previous post in this series I laid out some hermeneutical basics regarding scripture. If you haven’t read that, go there first because if we do not start from an agreeable hermeneutic (method of interpretation), we won’t get very far. For this post, I want to start with 1 Timothy 2.…
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Women and the church: an introduction
In this series: I’ve been thinking about writing a series of posts about why I came to reject the complementarian position on women in the church and embrace what aligns more closely with the egalitarian view. This post will just be an introduction and I’ll see where I go from here. A brief summary If…