UK study finds that ‘female empowerment’ contributes to breakdown of traditional family

Jeff Robinson, Gender Blog

Should boys wrestle with girls?

John Piper reacts to a Star Tribune story about a girl participating in a high school wrestling tournament

Star Tribune story by John Millea

Podcast: Carolyn McCulley discusses feminism and radical womanhood with Gary Chapman

Five Love Languages dot com (February 21, 2009)

Amazon: Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World

‘Be Hot for God’ and ‘Is Christianity Sexist?’ among posts featured at Christian Carnival #263

Set up at the Evangelical Ecologist Blog

New book by Mark Chanski extols ‘womanly dominion’

Jeff Robinson, Gender Blog

Trinity Debate debrief

Part I is up at The CBMW Gender Blog:

“On October 9, 2008, in Deerfield, Ill., the Henry Center hosted a debate concerning the nature of the Trinity featuring Wayne Grudem and Bruce Ware versus Keith Yandell and Tom McCall. Since the content of the debate consisted of 2 ½ hours of video, we have just now been able to digest and offer some thoughts …”

Radical Womanhood

A video promo for Carolyn McCulley’s book, Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World, published last month:

• Official Radical Womanhood site.
• A review of the book by Catherine Tarter (CBMW).
• McCulley’s blog.

Wallace on 1 Peter 1:3-7 and wife abuse

At Parchment and Pen, Greek scholar Dan Wallace attempts to answer the question, “What does it look like for a complementarian husband to treat his wife properly?”:

“A friend wrote to me recently, asking why I haven’t written anything about wife abuse on Parchment & Pen. She urged me to do it because, according to her, complementarianism is rich soil in which to grow this kind of wickedness (she’s an egalitarian). Now, I could dispute the merits of that viewpoint, but I’ll pass. Instead, I want to take a pro-active position on what the Bible says about how a husband should treat his wife. I’ll talk about the do’s and don’t’s …”

1 Peter 3:7 reads as follows (ESV):

“Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you [1] of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”

FYI
(From Theopedia): complementarianism - “the theological view that although men and women are created equal in their being and personhood, yet they are created to complement each other via different roles in life and in the church.”

“Never apologize for the truth” (UPDATE: Wallace responds)

At the Gender Blog, Jeff Robinson critiques the somewhat reluctant stance of Greek scholar Dan Wallace on the issue of female leadership in the church:

“I have great respect for Dr. Wallace and even appreciate much about the letter, including his desire to be gracious in debating theological matters. However, I cannot follow him in his halting manner over what he admits to be the very clear teaching of the Word of God. …”

Update 11/7: Wallace has posted a response at Parchment and Pen:

“I thought it [Robinson's post] misrepresented my views in some serious ways, so I wrote a response. I had thought that that response would either get posted on the site (it wasn’t), would have caused the author to alter what he said (he didn’t), or at least have stimulated the writing of a letter to me from the CBMW folks (they weren’t). Regrettably, I have to post my response here, because of the one-sided story that was given at CBMW. …”

“A Woman of Action”

More from girltalk on the Proverbs 31 woman:

“The Proverbs 31 woman is a woman of action. She isn’t simply a well-wisher of her husband’s happiness; she’s a doer of good to him. She brings him good, it says in the NIV. She delivers and supplies good to him. She does it.”

Also, the True Woman Manifesto, as outlined at the True Woman Conference 08, can be downloaded (pdf; HT: The Line). It includes the following:

“Men and women are both created in the image of God and are equal in value and dignity, but they have distinct roles and functions in the home and in the church.”

Was Sarah Palin a pro-family pick?

Michael Spencer commends Voddie Baucham’s consistent complementarianism (Baucham opposes a Sarah Palin vice-presidency on the basis of his interpretation of Scripture):

“I appreciate the complementarians that have staked out a different position, but isn’t Baucham more consistent? And is there any doubt that his views will soon have a significant influence in the SBC and among the young, restless and reformed?”

Is “Sarah Palin, VP” unscriptural? (update)

Bonnie at Intellectuelle muses on the complementarian’s dilemma (part one), in response to a series on the topic posted at the Gender Blog by David Kotter (parts one, two, three, and four).

Update (10/10) - part two of Bonnie’s commentary:

“In the end, Kotter’s amounts to a very poorly constructed, poorly defended case in favor of Palin as Vice-President. Not that there isn’t a good one, but Kotter’s isn’t it.”

From Canterbury to Rome

Dawn Eden shares a series of facsimiles from a 1944 publication which tells the account of a Jesuit who converted from Anglicanism.

… and speaking of the Church of England, blogger ‘Cranmer’ laments a recent proposal to provide traditionalists who don’t support female bishops with their own itinerant (male) “flying bishops“.

Boyhood to manhood, explained (updated)

Owen Strachan offers a scriptural blueprint (parts one and two) at the Gender Blog, which he admits is heavily informed by his mentor, Al Mohler. Mohler is putting together a work entitled From Boy to Man: The Marks of Manhood, which is being blogged on here.

(UPDATE: here’s part three)