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Paige Patterson Is My Fault, Too

For years, I attended complementarian churches. I kept telling myself that maybe things would change. I kept telling myself that I, as a woman who taught and had a career, set a positive example. I kept telling myself that complementarianism wasn’t misogyny. I kept telling…

Beth Allison BarrMay 30, 2018

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Is There Hope for Evangelical Women?

My daughter and I were walking our new puppy when my phone buzzed. It was a twitter notification from my fellow blogger Chris Gehrz. He had tweeted about Beth Moore’s open letter. I stopped dead and started reading.This was a mistake. We had only had…

Beth Allison BarrMay 16, 2018

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The Myth of Biblical Womanhood?

In 2012, Rachel Held Evans—a New York Times bestselling author of American Christianity–wrote a stunningly provocative book titled A Year of Biblical Womanhood. In it, she vividly shows us how “biblical womanhood” is not a constant. It is a culturally constructed concept. For those of…

Beth Allison BarrMay 2, 2018

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Scamming for God? The Tale of (Another) Huckster Preacher Kirbyjon Caldwell

Today I am pleased to welcome Jonathan Root to The Anxious Bench. Jonathan Root is currently a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Missouri. He received his PhD in history in spring 2016 at Mizzou. His dissertation is a history of the relationship between…

Beth Allison BarrApril 18, 2018

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Will Beth Moore Help Save Evangelicalism?

“Lord, I repent of ways I’ve been complicit in & contributed tomisogyny & sexism in the church by my cowardly and inordinate deference to male leaders in order to survive rather than simply appropriately respecting them as my brothers. Forgive me for being part of…

Beth Allison BarrApril 5, 2018

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Reconsidering Paul: A Reading List

In 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention amended the Baptist Faith and Message for the first time since 1963. They voted to add a four-paragraph statement on the family. The new statement declared that a woman should “submit herself graciously” to the leadership of her husband.…

Beth Allison BarrMarch 7, 2018

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Paul on Women: A Modern Obsession?

On August 4, 2009, John Piper, chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary, former pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, and the well-known author of more than 50 books including his co-authored Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, answered this question on his podcast Desiring God: “Why don’t…

Beth Allison BarrFebruary 21, 2018

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Calling Out Sexual Harassment: The Implications Of Complementarianism

Meredith Stone, a Baptist female seminary professor, responded last week to John Piper. If you remember, John Piper recently posted the script of an interview on Desiring God. He argued that women should not teach at seminaries. Actually, that isn’t correct. John Piper argued that…

Beth Allison BarrFebruary 7, 2018

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Could Medieval Women Preach? Stop Using Paul Against Women Pt 3

Two days ago, John Piper answered the question of a male seminary student at Desiring God. The student, Scott, identified as a complementarian and wanted to know if John Piper thought it was okay for women to teach at seminaries. John Piper said no. Because…

Beth Allison BarrJanuary 24, 2018

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Jessica Hahn and Evangelical Silence on Sexual Abuse

We are so pleased to welcome back John Wigger to the Anxious Bench. John Wigger is Professor of History at the University of Missouri and author of PTL: The Rise and Fall of the Evangelical Empire of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. #MeToo #ChurchToo In…

Beth Allison BarrJanuary 16, 2018

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Paige Patterson Is My Fault, Too

Is There Hope for Evangelical Women?

The Myth of Biblical Womanhood?

Scamming for God? The Tale of (Another) Huckster Preacher Kirbyjon Caldwell

Will Beth Moore Help Save Evangelicalism?

Reconsidering Paul: A Reading List

Paul on Women: A Modern Obsession?

Calling Out Sexual Harassment: The Implications Of Complementarianism

Could Medieval Women Preach? Stop Using Paul Against Women Pt 3

Jessica Hahn and Evangelical Silence on Sexual Abuse

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