Women, Contact Sports, and the Mix of the Two in a Gender-Confused Age
In response to my blog from Thursday on the New York Times piece covering the extreme risks many girls face in playing high-contact sports, I drew some strong responses, and wanted to comment on them...
View ArticleA Feminist’s Daughter Curses the Movement
The daughter of feminist poet and writer Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, penned a revealing piece in London’s Daily Mail today (HT: Challies). The following quotations from the piece shed much light on...
View ArticleWarrior Girls and its Importance
Some time ago I blogged about a new book, Warrior Girls, that covers in an in-depth way the unique challenges faced by female athletes. That book is now out. I would encourage Christian parents and...
View ArticleThe Week-est Link, September 12, 2008
1. Timmy Brister has a nice summary of what evangelicals are saying about Sarah Palin’s Vice President bid as a mother of five children. Also, see Dave Schrock’s helpful blog for a similar survey. 2....
View ArticleSarah Palin, Maureen Dowd, and the Reality of Evangelical Paradox
Maureen Dowd has a fun if slightly snarky column on a recent visit to Wasilla, AK, Sarah Palin’s hometown. Dowd opens her piece with a comment by Carly Fiorina, the female former CEO of...
View ArticleFear, God, and Womanhood: Janni Ortlund Provides Wise Counsel for Women
I found this quotation relating to fears that play upon women from a recent interview with a prominent teacher of women very insightful. From the CBMW blog: “Jani Ortlund is a mother, pastor’s wife...
View ArticleNewsflash: Modern Women Are Unhappy
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat has just penned a provocative piece called “Liberated and Unhappy” that briefly analyzes a new study entitled “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness” by...
View ArticleCelebrating the Gifts Women Bring to Weekly Worship
CBMW just featured a really helpful piece on ten ways for women to serve the church in weekly worship. It’s a joint post for CBMW by Boyce College professor Scott Connell and his wife, Mary. I...
View ArticleA Notable Critique of Rachel Held Evans’s “Year of Biblical Womanhood”
Over at CBMW Reviews you’ll find a short, irenic and theologically muscular review of the controversial A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans. The review is by complementarian voice Aimee...
View ArticleJohn Piper on “Good”: “It Gives Me Hope That God Is Wonderfully at Work”
With our dear friends at Desiring God Ministries, the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood just released a new eBook, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood. This project, available in...
View ArticleWhy Are Millennials Embracing Complementarity?
(At the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, we’re excited to go public with this news: students can pay a $40 rate for our April 2016 T4G pre-conference!) Everybody knows we’re in an age of...
View ArticleDivine Order in a Chaotic Age: On Women Preaching
In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth. Many evangelicals know the words of Genesis 1:1 by heart–but fewer have recognized the full ontological and metaphysical significance of this...
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