by Debbie Boyce | Mar 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Debbie Boyce | Feb 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Debbie Boyce | Feb 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today I want to write about the question of whether God created and intended gender roles and how I believe He from the start embedded them in the balanced environment of human equality. Many people believe gender roles are simply a human invention. However, we...
by Debbie Boyce | Feb 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
I first became aware in the early 1980’s that there were two basic perspectives within Christianity on the roles of men and women. There is a traditional view, most often known as the complementarian view. Broadly defined, adherents of this view believe that the...
by Debbie Boyce | Jan 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
God has created a world with all sorts of diversity. Within humanity, that diversity can be seen in gender, race, personality, culture, giftedness, age and experience. God meant that diversity for good, and He delights in the different contributions all of these...