by Beth Allison Barr | Jan 5, 2018 | Opinion
Female undergraduates have expressed frustration to me over and over again about how Paul’s writings about women have been used against them. “I hate Paul” is what many have said. Ideas about women really do matter, as I discussed previously. What...
by Beth Allison Barr | Jan 4, 2018 | Opinion
“I hate Paul.” I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that from female undergraduates. Young women scarred by how many times passages from the Pauline epistles have been used against them: women be silent (1 Corinthians 14), wives submit to...
by Beth Allison Barr | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
I recently stumbled across a fabulously ordinary story in my own hometown of a Baptist church with a long history of supporting female leadership. It helps counter the negative portrayal of female ministers espoused by some evangelicals – like those shared by...
by Beth Allison Barr | Sep 28, 2017 | Opinion
Wayne Grudem argued in a 2006 interview that female leaders in the church (especially pastors) are disobeying God’s Word and thus open to “the withdrawal of God’s hand of protection and blessing.” As Grudem explains, “A woman who serves...
by Beth Allison Barr | Dec 14, 2016 | Opinion
Every Christmas in the yard of a house not far from us stands a manger scene. The Christ Child rocks gently in his small white wooden manger, his halo glowing from the spotlight. Instead of Mary and Joseph gazing at their holy infant, or even angels surrounding the...
