Rick Warren on Ordaining Women

Rick Warren is making a splash in recent days over something his church, Saddleback Church, did last year, ordaining women to the pastoral ministry. That happened on May 6, 2021. Subsequently, Rick Warren retired as pastor, installing Andy Wood as the new senior pastor with Wood’s wife, Stacie listed as a “teaching pastor” at the…

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The Flawed Hermeneutics of Evangelical Feminism (Repeat)

[Editor’s note: This article first appeared in FrontLine in 2013, and we republished it here on P&D in 2014. Since women’s ordination is once again in the news (see the piece published yesterday from Jeff Straub), we thought it appropriate to revisit this article.] We don’t have women pastors in our churches. But those who do…

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The Flawed Hermeneutics of Evangelical Feminism

Andy and Erika Merkle We don’t have women pastors in our churches. But those who do might not be the liberals you imagine. Some are Evangelicals, people who hold to a true gospel, salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. We call them evangelical feminists.1 Evangelical feminists, unlike radical feminists, believe that…

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Women in Luke’s Gospel

Layton Talbert In recent years Biblical scholarship has seen a revival of interest in the role of women in the Bible. Unfortunately, this interest is too often motivated by or mixed with a modern feminist mentality that seeks to liberate women from an imagined patriarchal suppression of their historical significance and contributions. The result is…

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Order in the Home and in the Godhead, (2)

David Potter This is part two of two • Part One In a previous post, I discussed the analogy between the position of the husband in a marriage and the position of the Father in relation to the Son in the godhead. Paul invokes this comparison in I Corinthians 11:3. In the earlier post I…

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Catching up on the news

The Eclectic Web A lot of interesting stories hit the web every day. The list below are a few that address issues that might be of interest to fundamentalist Baptists and also may have slipped ‘below your radar’. The topics we cover in this of The EW are: Television and Culture History Persecution Gender Issues…

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The Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

The Eclectic Web, June 28, 2013 Leading off the Eclectic Web today is an excellent piece by Al Mohler of Southern Seminary in Louisville: “Waiting for the Other Shoe” — The Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage…

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The Eclectic Web–2013/05/06

It has been some weeks since we’ve taken our eclectic wandering around the world wide web. I’ve accumulated a number of articles that might be of interest to our readers, so today I thought we should take the time to organize and post them. Topics: Parenting – are we over-doing it with protecting our kids?…

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The ABCs of Christian Womanhood

Steven Owen Today America faces moral decadence unprecedented in its history. The American home is under severe Satanic attack, and much of this attack has been directed against the role of women. Even Christian homes are under tremendous social and cultural pressure that threatens their very existence. We need to return to the first principles…

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Around the Web–10/4/12

Quite an array of articles caught my eye this week. They may be of interest to you: Another study undermines feminist stereotype of women who kill From the Canadian paper, the National Post, columnist Barbara Kay offers an interesting point of view, countering feminist assumptions. As far as I know, Barbara Kay writes from a…

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