Archive for the 'Gender Menders' Category

Trueman on Reformed Church Culture and Women

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

From the Reformation21 blog (May 4, 2007), by Westminster Theological Seminary Professor of Historical Theology and Church History and Dean of Faculty Dr. Carl Trueman:
Phil’s blog got me thinking about the whole issue of women in Reformed and conservative evangelical circles in general. On the whole, I don’t think the church provides the [...]

Are Pastors New Covenant ‘Priests’?

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

I’m engaged in an interesting little debate with our good friend Ros over at her I Have a Question blog. Ros is agreeing with James Jordan that women cannot be pastors in Christian churches because the office of pastor is the New Covenant equivalent of the Old Covenant priesthood. Since (according to Jordan, following Meredith [...]

Women: Be Silent So You May Speak?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

On the topic of the (seemingly) prohibitve passages in Paul’s letters concerning women in the church, Peter Leithart has dug up an historical context about which I’d never heard before. Interesting….I wonder what research backs it up.

Bauer, Stackhouse, and Church Marketing

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

A follow up to my previous posts on Susan Wise Bauer’s Books & Culture review of John Stackhouse’s Finally Feminist: Church Marketing Sucks has extended the thesis of Stackhouse’s book into the how we “market” Christianity to the world around us. Read here.

What Is “Biblical Masculinity”?

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

OK, I know I’ve been on a bit of an evangelical feminist kick here lately. I promise you, though, after reading John Stackhouse’s Finally Feminist last weekend, I went out and split a face cord of firewood. I even spit a few times.
Over the past few days, Rick Phillips has been posting his views on [...]

Bauer vs. Phillips Continues

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

On the Reformation21 Blog Rev. Rick Phillips decides he just can’t resist getting in a last shot. He writes an “apology” that, in my opinion, ends up being almost worse than the original offense. See my second comment under Ms. Bauer’s response to Rev. Phillips first counter-attack.
Related: Just discovered that John Stackhouse (author of Finally [...]

Slippery Slopes and Sloshy Hermeneutics: Bauer, Phillips, and Evangelical Feminism

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

In the most recent issue of Books & Culture (both print and online), author and home school guru Susan Wise Bauer takes the opportunity of her review of John Stackhouse’s book Finally Feminist to respond to the sharp and sometimes alarmist criticisms that erupted across the Internet after she let out on her blog that [...]