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Confession is good for the soul (sigh)
A friend recently told me this story. He had just started a missional community and the question came up, “Are we a church?” The group decided together that they were a church. One young lady, who...
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Can women have authority over men?
In his book,Why Not Women, Loren Cunningham tells this story: Duncan Campbell, who had witnessed an extraordinary revival in the Hebrides, was asked to speak about the revival in a London church that...
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It’s all Greek to me
There’s a little word in the Greek in 1 Timothy 2:12 that makes all the difference. That word is oude. Photo Credit: westpark via Compfight cc It appears there are two prohibitions for women in 1...
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Guest post by Jon Zens: Selecting Scriptures to silence the sisters (part 1)
I am so grateful to Jon Zens and the contribution he makes to the conversation about women. Jon is a Biblical scholar who has made a long-term study of the Scriptures about women and he carries an...
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Guest post by Jon Zens: selecting Scriptures to silence the sisters (part 2)
Jon Zens continues his list of examples that reveal the role of women throughout the New Testament. Women should not be silenced by the two “challenging texts”–1 Corinthians 14:34-34 and 1 Timothy...
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Guest post by Jon Zens: Selecting Scriptures to silence the sisters (part 3)
This comprehensive list by Jon (see parts one and two) of how God used women in the New Testament is both instructive and far-reaching. Two passages have been used to muzzle women for centuries–1...
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Eve was deceived…
As a young Christian I was taught that because women are more prone to deception than men, therefore men should be the teachers. Adam was created before Eve, and therefore all women should be in...
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Why are some women passive in church?
Here’s what I was taught in my early days as a Christian. As a woman I am always to be under a man’s covering or authority. If I’m unmarried or my husband is not around, I have to find a man to whom I...
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How are men impacted by the teaching about women?
On Friday I posted about eighteen things I had been taught about women as a young Christian–things which impacted me for decades of my life. To be honest, even as I wrote them down, I found myself...
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Women are not allowed to teach. Really?
My last post about a female Indian church planter who was not allowed to share in class obviously struck a chord with many. In response, someone asked me how he could answer those who use 1 Timothy...
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