Mike Seaver at the blog Role Calling understands the shaping effects of sound doctrine, and is facilitating a conversation about gender roles and God's design of men and women. His recent post A Semi-Pragmatic, Less Theological Open Letter to Egalitarians has a list of 10 questions that hopefully will help egalitarians and complementarians explore the intersection between doctrine and daily life. The comment section is open now, and later this year he will provide a summarizing post.
For example, Mike would like to hear from egalitarians who are willing to weigh in on insightful questions: If the Titanic disaster were to happen again, would you desire 50% of the seats on the life boats to be left for men?
His list is not limited to hypothetical questions. For example: Do egalitarian parents train their boys that it is okay for them to be "stay at home dads?" If so, does a lot of domestic training happen with these boys?
I am eager to read the comments and gain additional insights into the inner workings of egalitarian marriages. To wit: If two egalitarians are married with children, and they hear a noise downstairs at night, should the man or the woman go downstairs to investigate, or would it depend on who had done it the last time?
To the many egalitarians who regularly read and give us feedback at Gender Blog, I would like to thank you for engaging with us in this ongoing dialogue. I would appreciate if you would invite your friends to comment over at Role Calling to help complementarians better understand the practical outworking of the egalitarian doctrinal position.
Thanks in advance; I look forward to reading your comments there.
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