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Five Messages Holding Women Back
Today I'm happy to host as a guest blogger Kat Armstrong, author of the recent book No More Holding Back, which I urge urge urge you to order. Do you feel like your womanhood and calling to live fully conflict? I used to—because I believed five messages that denied the truth of who God says I am: 1. Women Can’t Be Trusted to Learn and Lead I once asked a Sunday School teacher, “Can women go to seminary?” My question revealed I thought theological education was reserved for men only. After searching my heart, I’ve come to realize I didn’t think women could be trusted to lead…
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Complementarians on Women in Ministry: Diverse Images
I read recently that when boards of directors have both male and female representation, they make better decisions. Doesn’t that sound consistent with Genesis 1:28? Not to everybody. Especially not those at the conservative end of the complementarian camp (and it is a very wide camp with a lot of difference inside). The word “complementarian” gets underlined in red in a Word doc, because it’s a word people made up. And they did so to emphasize that men and women are complementary. Some say “egalitarians [hereafter E’s] believe men and women have no gender differences and that complementarians [hereafter C’s] believe in the beautiful design of God for gender…
