complementarianism

The Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board released a statement last Thursday, October 14, 2021, clarifying their stance on women in church leadership at NAMB endorsed church plants.

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.

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.

"Women are becoming frustrated as disciples," says Aimee Byrd. Part of the problem, she believes, is the church's misunderstanding of the idea of "biblical" manhood and womanhood.

In a reversal of his long-held stance, prominent conservative and complementarian theologian Wayne Grudem says the Bible permits divorce in cases of spousal abuse....

Several weeks after telling Beth Moore to, “Go home,” John MacArthur revisited the issue of female preachers, again referring specifically to Moore.