Category: egalitarian

Radio Silence, What’s Next, and A Featured Article

ByRachel May 28, 2014 0 Comments
My bovine maternal instinct kicks in.I feel it's been an unpardonably long time since I made any kind of post. I assure you, it's not due to laziness.First, I had to finish up the semester, a challenge all by itself. Then we left on vacation the day after my last set of papers was due.Vacation has been an amazing time to recharge and rethink some things, especially about the way I use technology....

How the Accidental Complementarian confused the bejeebers out of me today!

ByRachel April 24, 2014 5 Comments
I think this will be my last egalitarian post for awhile, unless some unforeseen blogosphere emergency arises. Starting tomorrow I’d like to switch back to pleasanter topics. But I discovered an article about an accidental complementarian over at Her.Meneutics and was so baffled by it that I had to write a post just to put my thoughts in order. This blog is becoming like therapy for me.It...

Christian Feminism: Friend or Foe? Part 2

ByRachel April 23, 2014 17 Comments
As we saw in yesterday's post, a recent article made the argument that feminism is unnecessary for Christians, and I gave my view on why that’s not so. As promised yesterday, I want to spend this post examining the second main objection that Walsh raised against feminism (again, with the understanding that I am picking on his article because it represents a widely-held view among many...

Christian Feminism: Friend or Foe? Part I

ByRachel April 22, 2014 7 Comments
A recent article warned Christian women (and men, in parentheses) that Feminism Is Not Your Friend. It asked whether feminism and Christianity are incompatible.This is a question many Christians on both sides of the aisle are asking. (For those who don’t know, “the aisle” means the divide between Christian complementarians and egalitarians. Complementarians believe the Bible teaches a...