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Newly-elected Southern Baptist Convention president Bart Barber defended himself on Twitter regarding a tweet where he expressed gratitude for Pastor Rick Warren’s outreach to Muslims. 

If people reject complementarianism, are they on their way to rejecting the authority of the Bible? This question is the focus of an article by pastor and professor Denny Burk that engages the theology of Pastor Thabiti Anywabile and authors Beth Allison Barr and Kristin Kobez Du Mez.

There is evidence church attendance can be good for your health — unless, that is, you are a woman at a church that bars women from preaching or other leadership roles.

As a scholar of gender and evangelical Christianity who grew up Southern Baptist, I watched how complementarianism became central to evangelical belief, starting in the late 1970s, in response to the feminist influence within Christianity.

Now Beth Moore, arguably the evangelical world’s most famous Bible teacher, has begged forgiveness for supporting the theology of male headship rooted in many evangelical cultures.

Beth Moore has not renounced complementarianism but now appears to favor a less-restrictive version. And other evangelical women may be following suit.

In the spring of 2019, Lyell, then a well-respected leader in Christian publishing, decided to publicly disclose that she was a survivor of sexual abuse. Then her life fell apart.

Comments on a Facebook group called "Geneva Commons" took aim at author Aimee Byrd, a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The comments point out the denomination's need to address misogyny in its ranks.