Suellen’s experience thinking through, and working together with the men and women of her church, to consider what it looks like both theologically and practically.
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Graham Beynon and Jane Tooher have produced a wise and irenic work drawing on their combined ministry experience. Immediately the force of the book’s message is displayed in this partnership of authors.
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Part three in a series on living as God’s women in God’s world.
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Part two in a series on living as God’s women in God’s world.
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A series on living as God’s women in God’s world with this first one about confusion.
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In part 1 of these articles on Equality, Lesley Ramsay presented the argument that differences between men and women are an essential part of their God given equality, and that to deny the differences is dangerous to women. In this article I will address the issue of how an order of authority does not undermine equality.
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In my last post we took a look at some different types of feminism, and also some of the gains achieved by the movement. We also, in light of those gains, wondered whether we should be calling ourselves feminists. My preliminary response was ‘no’: God’s word gives us better diagnoses and better solutions. In this post I’ll try to show you what I mean.
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The New York Times magazine labelled 2015 as “the year we obsessed about identity”,[1] and it’s an obsession that isn’t finished yet. Answers to questions of personal identity—‘Who am I’ and ‘What do I identify as’—are now shaping public discourse, and increasingly the answers are expressed in labels. I even discovered recently you can now ‘identify’ as vegan!
And one of the labels people are obsessing over is whether or not to be a feminist.
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Sadly, the suppression of a woman’s equality in our broken world prevailed. But, since the explosion of the feminist doctrine onto world history, equality now trumps difference! Women certainly needed a redressing of that cursed imbalance… but the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction, that women are once more in a precarious position. We want to begin a conversation about why equality without difference is dangerous for women. It is a tale of two equalities: cultural equality and Biblical equality.
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Kevin DeYoung has set out to write a short, easy to read but biblically sound book introducing “the divinely designed complementarity of men and women as it applies to life in general and especially to ministry in the church.” (p15) I think he’s done just that!
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This is the second of Stephanie Judd’s two-part contribution to the discussion surrounding the “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” podcast. See part 1 here
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This is the first of Stephanie Judd’s two-part contribution to the discussion surrounding the “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” podcast. See part 2 here.
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Phil and Victoria Colgan have reviewed for us the second edition of Claire Smiths book ‘Gods Good Design - What the Bible really says about Men and Women’. Claire recognizes the reality of bias and the presuppositions we bring to this topic but as far as is possible seeks to let the word of God speak on its own terms.
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Meet Avril Lonsdale who is part of our steering committee here at Equal But Different. Hear about how she came to know Jesus and what it is like studying at Moore Theological College in preparation for a lifetime of ministry.
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The New York Times magazine labelled 2015 as “the year we obsessed about identity”, and it’s an obsession that isn’t finished yet. Answers to questions of personal identity—‘Who am I’ and ‘What do I identify as’—are now shaping public discourse, and increasingly the answers are expressed in labels. And one of the labels people are obsessing over is whether or not to be a feminist.
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Since 2011 Jane Tooher has been Director of the Priscilla & Aquila Centre: a centre with the stated mission of benefitting women and encouraging their ministries in partnership with men. We chat with Jane about possible blindspots and barriers to effective complementary partnerships in ministry.
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The Bible speaks of distinctive and complementary roles for women and men in ministry, but what might that look like in practice? What does it look like in a parachurch setting like university ministry? We chat to Tim Earnshaw and Julia Bollen. Tim is the Campus Director and Jules the Senior Women’s Staff Worker with the Christian Union at James Cook University (JCU).
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What does complementarian ministry look like? We chat to Lisa Boyd and Bruce Morrison of St John’s Cathedral, Parramatta, about the ins-and-outs and ups-and-downs of working as a team.
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