Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Scary Straw Women of Complementarity

Mary Kassian has a funny but enlightening post profiling many of the stereotypes that are promoted by many who fail to understand what healthy complimentarily looks like in the family and the church. She writes:
Recently, someone in the twitter world called me an “uber-complementarian.” They threw out the term “complementarian” derogatorily, like an ugly handful of mud – akin to calling someone a “racist,” “fascist,” “sexist,” or something scary like that. I had to smile, since I remember sitting around a table with John Piper and Wayne Grudem and others, wracking our brains to come up with an apt label to describe the historic Christian teaching on gender. Oh how quickly labels turn into stereotypes!
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