Abigail Calicchio’s Reviews > How God Sees Women: The End of Patriarchy > Status Update

“John Piper does not support females lecturing men in ministerial and theological training, (though he does endorse female theologian‘s writing, because this “puts the woman as author out of the reader sight, and, in a sense, takes away the dimension of her female personhood”) no shade but this is some wacky reasoning dawg

“To be clear, the Bible never commands us to strive for greater levels of masculinity or femininity. Instead, we are called to greater levels of Christ likeness.”

“we must be consistent. If we are nervous about having female elders because no explicit examples can be cited, then we should be equally nervous about Gentile elders.” Clock it

Wait lowkey this is the same point that partners in Christ makes

The infamous love and respect book 😔

My brain hurts after those last 2 chapters but I’m tracking

“if in ordinary life, existence in Christ is manifested openly in church fellowship, then, if a gentile may exercise spiritual leadership in church as freely as a Jew, or a slave as freely as a citizen, why not a woman as freely as a man?” Pen on fire

“As terrible as the failed relationship between the genders is, it can and must be resisted. We should do what we can to remove domination, crushing inferiority, toxic, superiority, and ideology from our relationships every bit as much as we can seek to make the birthing of children less dangerous and painful, and as we fertilize and kill the weeds when we farm the land.” High school me feels so vindicated rn

“One sign that the world has gone wrong, says God, is that men will assume rule over women simply because they are women” 👀

“A tribal chief of walking around with his helper is not in a ‘beautiful interdependence’ - he is in a two-person hierarchy” lowkey clock it