Complementarianism and Egalitarianism: the coming divide

Some great posts happening at The Sola Panel. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 (via Mark) *Edit: Part 4 is now up. While I think these posts are excellent, I do think there is an aspect that is missing in this discussion. In my own exchanges with egalitarians it has been made very clear that for [...]

How Not To Rape People: A Handy Guide For Modern Men And Footballers

The Problem: In my perusings of the modern media landscape, a worrying trend has come to my attention: young men who apparently just can’t stop having non-consensual sex with others. It’s a tricky problem, and one to which there are, clearly, no easy solutions. I mean, it’s all very well to say “No means no”, [...]

Facebook and Breast Cancer

I’m sure you remember the fuss last year over the fb campaign to raise breast cancer awareness by putting the colour of your bra in your status. If you have no idea what I’m talking about your probably a guy, because it was a secret girls only campaign. Well I’m about to spill the beans [...]

Lynx Stynx!

CollectiveShout have had some great wins this week with campaigns that have resulted in action from Bonds, Gold Coast Turf Club and now Woolies, who have withdrawn from a Lynx promotion. But the Lynx brand needs to hear more from women AND men who oppose its sexist and objectifying advertising. So CollectiveShout have launched the [...]

Subordination vs Subjugation

It intrigues me when people opposing the complementarian view use the words ‘subordination’ and ‘subjugation’ interchangeably. These words in fact are not synonyms of each other so I wonder if people who use them as such (especially when the appear like this – ‘subjugation/subordination’) are ignorant of the meaning of the words they use, or [...]

Do you love what you believe?

I’ve been forced, by circumstances, to think hard this week about what I believe and what it means in practice, specifically on the issue of women in ministry. (You can read what I think here and here) This issue exhausts me. I read and read and listen to sermon after sermon and yet I have [...]

Review – The Blue Parakeet

A conversation that started in the comments of this post lead me to reading the The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight. The book is not directly about the Complementarian/Egalitarian discussion. Predominantly it is about how to read the Bible, but the ‘case study’ he presents as an example of his theory is how to understand [...]

Equal and different???

Over here Dave is attempting the big task of discussing male/female relationship, and particularly the role of men and women in the church, over a series of short posts. In one of these posts he says As complementarians we often speak about men and women being “Equal but Different”, indeed a large women-led organisation here [...]

Candidates dinner and tough questions

Last night all the second year MTC students who are also candidates for ordination in the Sydney Anglican Diocese, were invited to dinner at the Archbishop‘s house. After dinner  he posed some questions to us to get us thinking about the good and bad of the Anglican communion and about the 2 main things that [...]

Here’s an interesting topic…..

Some friends of mine had this conversation last night… Does going to bible college make single woman intimidating to single men who aren’t at college?? Discuss.