What Submission has meant for me

Welcome back! We’ve enjoyed our summer rest and are excited to get back to regular blogging. During our break, I had the opportunity to hear a bit of feedback on topics yet to be covered.  Chief among those topics is the subject of women in the church. We are getting...

Work Is All About the Heart

Debbie and I participate in conversations about work life balance regularly. We each have unique perspectives on the topic – Debbie has always worked, even while raising (and homeschooling!!) four children. I am currently a stay at home mom but for the first...

Why do we keep writing on this topic?

I ask myself this often.  I pause today, as I consider the topics Ruth and I want to tackle in the next weeks, like work, family and the Church. There are many good books on women and men to read from a diversity of perspectives.  One book I recently read is by...

Biblical Gender Roles Vs. Patriarchy

Teaching about gender roles feels very out of step with our current culture.  Suggesting there is any difference between men and women worked out in roles and impacting aspirations for careers and accomplishments is often assumed to be coming from patriarchal views of...

Did God Create the Family with Gender Roles?

Two weeks ago, in Gender Roles in Balance With Human Equality, I wrote primarily about how Genesis 1 and 2 teach the equality of men and women so that we understand correctly that gender roles do not negate that equality.  This week I want to write how we see gender...