Complementarianish #1
Introductions: Alexis Neal, Sara Klooster, and Katie Grubbs
-How this series grew from Christian Feminist Podcast
-Why we are doing this
READING
–Jonathan Leeman’s “A Word of Empathy, Warning, and Counsel for ‘Narrow’ Complementarians”
-The differences between narrow and broad complementarians
-“Empathy and warning”: the risks of falling into either patriarchy or interchangeability
-How have we seen this tendency to fall into either patriarchy or interchangeability in our churches and in our lives?
-Law/wisdom and straight line/jagged line dichotomies
DISCUSSION
-Are the law/wisdom and straight line/jagged line dichotomies useful?
-Is there anything that we would add to his article that he never mentioned at all but would be useful?
-Bearing in mind all these various ideas (narrow/broad, straight/jagged, etc.), WHO are we? Where do we fall on the complementarian spectrum? Broad? Narrow? Some mix of the two?
**Other episodes to check out: CFP Episodes 36 and 37, Complementarian and Egalitarian Primers; CFP Episode 48, Dorothy Sayers Part 1; City of Man Episode 65 on Femininity