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Biblical Inerrancy’s Long History as an Evangelical Activist for White Patriarchy

By Stephen Young

…authority game. They naturalize their ‘egalitarianism’ by presenting it as biblical, articulate their deference to biblical truthfulness, and portray complementarian competitors as corruptors of true biblical authority or too-literal in their inerrancy. Complementarians then delegitimize evangelical egalitarian participation in the game itself by denying them inerrantist legitimacy. In other words, everyone involved plays the same biblical authori…

Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and Domestic Violence

By Kathryn Joyce

…s blame for sin. Women have been responding in a sort of biblical battered wife syndrome, the “Eve Syndrome,” ever since. Another of Moss and Andersen’s contemporaries, Barbara Roberts, Australian author of Not Under Bondage: Biblical Divorce for Abuse, Adultery and Desertion, even calls herself a complementarian. Though Roberts believes that complementarianism too often has “an undue emphasis on female submission and too little emphasis on the hu…

Noah, Cosmos Controversies Not About Biblical Literalism

By Dan Mathewson

…e Christian’s duty to place him or herself under the authority of received biblical truth, most especially those truths directly assailed by the secular forces of Modernism. Five “fundamentals” of biblical truth were initially proposed in 1910 to which all Christians should assent (the inerrancy of the bible; the virgin birth; the substitutionary atonement; the historicity of the miracles; the second coming). Others would soon follow. What’s impor…

A Biblical Perspective That Recognizes Black Women

By Nyasha Junior

…that womanist biblical interpretation is not just an offshoot of feminist biblical interpretation. Womanist biblical interpretation draws on feminist work, but it has its own unique history and development. Womanist approaches in biblical studies connect with womanist work in religious studies-related fields such as ethics, theology, and homiletics—as well as with the rich history of African-American women’s engagement with biblical texts outside…

Is #MeToo Misogyny ‘Unbiblical’? Southern Baptist Women Test Limits of Biblical Inerrancy

By Karen E. Park

…for Christlike, servant-leadership, protection and provision in the home. Biblical submission for the wife is the divine calling to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership and help carry it through according to her gifts. This is the way of joy. For God loves his people and he loves his glory. And therefore when we follow his idea of marriage (sketched in texts like Genesis 2:18-24; Proverbs 5:15-19; 31:10-31; Mark 10:2-12; Ephesians 5:21-33; C…

Hater Pastor Loses His Wife of 42 Years, Uses the Occasion to Trash Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…blind hatred of other people would compel you to use the occasion of your wife’s death to make political hay? Rev. Garlow’s wife dies and the first thing he wants to do is write a letter to his supporters about how awful and sinful other people’s relationships are compared to his “real” relationship? I really should not be shocked by this display of political grandstanding on his wife’s grave. Garlow is, after all, the pastor of Skyline Church in…

The Breaking of Biblical Womanhood: The Problem With the Hot New Book Taking Aim at the Subjugation of Women in Evangelicalism

By Jill Hicks-Keeton

…on on the back cover of the book: “Historian Beth Allison Barr shows that ‘biblical womanhood’ isn’t biblical but arose from a series of definable historical moments. She presents a way forward for the contemporary church.” Barr’s story could have been mine too. A White woman raised in a Southern Baptist church, with an undergraduate degree from Baylor and a PhD from a leading university in the Research Triangle (she went to UNC; I to Duke), motiv…

How a Fringe Theocratic Movement Helped Shape the Religious Right As We Know It

By Sarah Posner

…’s call to dominion, economic regulation by the government is considered unbiblical—a fundamental tenet of what is known as biblical economics. There’s a certain amount of dread associated with this movement and the range of its influence. As I mention above Christian Reconstruction is often associated with advocating slavery and stoning homosexuals to death. These views should provoke dread, of course, but does the focus on those two tenets lead…

New Anti-Trans Strategies Floated at Family Research Council’s Pray Vote Stand Summit

By Heron Greenesmith and Asia Korkmaz

…preme The focus on the youth Q&A was helping young Christians embody their biblical worldview—a theme of the summit as a whole. FRC has a Center for Biblical Worldview, at which Joseph Backholm and George Barna are both Senior Fellows. But what is a biblical worldview and what does the rhetoric at Pray Vote Stand imply for strategic decisions that FRC and the larger Christian Right are making? According to Barna, holding a biblical worldview means…

Who Gets to Decide if Noah is Biblical?

By Annette Yoshiko Reed

…s any claim of this sort, and Aronofsky himself described it as the “least biblical, biblical movie ever made.” Furthermore, the Flood is far from just a “biblical” idea. Scholars of ancient Israel have long read Genesis 6-9 in relation to Atrahasis and Gilgamesh, which are but two of the cross-cultural continuum of Flood-stories. It’s not just a modern secularizing conceit to claim that the Flood might speak across and beyond Christian religious…