Equal Value Within Marriage – A Close Up View
Since we’ve been discussing how God values both men and women equally and how within marriage men and women are designed to work together as a team, I thought I would share about how Nyron and I relate in our marriage. Nyron is the head of our household, and I submit...
Gender Roles in Balance with Human Equality
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...
Two Perspectives
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...
Where Does Our Identity Come From?
President Trump recently made comments degrading people based on national origin and then followed up with statements about valuing people according to their professional usefulness. In light of these remarks, we thought it was appropriate to spend some time...
Plumb-lines Part 2
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...
Plumb-lines
When I embarked upon the study of the roles of men and women in Scripture in 1984, I had a couple of concerns in view. First, I felt acutely my own resistance to biblical submission as I had been taught. I was having personal difficulty with submission to my husband....