by Mitch Randall | Jun 14, 2019 | Opinion
The U.S. church needs a reality check. We have a problem. For 2,000 years, the Western church has been dominated by a white European patriarchy that has created a self-perpetuating system for a favored class. This system, which continues to exist, has empowered a...
by Beth Allison-Glenny | Jan 15, 2019 | Opinion
I’ve spent a long time trying to understand how and if women are different to men. The conversation came up frequently as I discerned a call to ministry through my teen years and into university. There seemed to be two answers. The first said I couldn’t be a minister...
by Larry Eubanks | Jun 26, 2018 | Opinion
There is an ongoing debate in evangelical circles between two views of the proper relationship between husbands and wives as prescribed by the Bible. The first is complementarianism, which asserts that the husband is the head of the household and holds ultimate...
by Mitch Carnell | Jun 11, 2018 | Opinion
An article I read recently extoling the virtues of complementarianism nagged at me. It would not let me rest. Complementarianism is a religious construct that deals with the roles of gender. The message is evil at its center. “The SBC has affirmed...
by Mitch Randall | Nov 22, 2017 | Opinion
I was one of the many Christians believing God created women for a subservient role to men. Growing up in fundamentalist Baptist churches, it was instilled in me for more than two decades that God created women to “help” men; women were to serve their...
