Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 11105 Few phrases in Christian teaching have done as much good and as much harm as headship and submission. Used as Scripture uses them, they describe a marriage of extraordinary tenderness. Used as some men have used them, they have kept women in frightening situations and given the whole idea a stench it did…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 11104 What Scripture asks of a husband and wife has become one of the hardest subjects to discuss calmly, partly because the words have been abused and partly because most people arrive at the conversation with a picture already in their heads. Some imagine a 1950s household with a silent woman and a man…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1135. Women teaching and preaching generates more heat in contemporary Christianity than almost any other practical question I am asked, and I understand why. Positions range from full egalitarianism, where no ministry distinctions exist between men and women at all, to a strict complementarianism that some apply so broadly it silences women’s voices well…