Women's Ministry

“The April 2024 issue of Christianity Today includes three cover stories addressing ongoing differences between complementarians and egalitarians. Titled ‘Division of Labor,’ the cover asks whether egalitarians and complementarians are really as opposed to one another as people suppose.” - Denny Burk

“once the SBC makes this negative requirement official …where could the EC go except to recommend en masse to the convention in session that all these churches … be expelled?” - SBC Voices

“Her name is Karen Jobes and she is emeritus professor of New Testament and exegesis at Wheaton College.” - Current

Also: Denny Burk approves

“While…I don’t believe women should be the pastors or regular teachers of men in the church, I do believe that in the pushback against that idea of women pastors, often the case gets overstated, and there is an anti-women feel to it, which disturbs me.” - Randy Alcorn

“ ‘Soft complementarian,’ as it is commonly called, is neither ‘complementarian’ or “egalitarian”—the two views that are typically featured in the debates.” - Eric Geiger

“Nearly three quarters of evangelicals agree that a properly trained and certified woman can preach on Sunday morning. Just 12% disagree with that statement and 15% have no opinion.” - GetReligion

“…leaders like Jesus and Paul labored alongside women, affirmed their giftedness, and established structures that would maximize their contribution to the gospel’s effectiveness in the church and out into the world.” - TGC

“One can’t help but note that Michael Bird, who co-hosts a podcast with Aimee Byrd, seems to have embarked on a similar trajectory around the same time. In 2012, Bird wrote a book wherein he affirmed male headship as ‘normative’ and ‘indisputable.’ Today, he disputes male headship and says he has changed his mind.” - CBMW