About the Episode

Will the real complementarians please stand up? Why it's time for thick/broad/natural complementarians to embrace the label of "biblical patriarchy" to differentiate themselves from the declining thin/narrow/ideological complementarians.

Resources to Click

“After Complementarianism, What? Why Egalitarians Are (Still) Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate” – Doug Ponder
“Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability” – Doug Ponder
“Male and Female He Created Them: The Implications of a Paradigmatic Reading of Genesis 1-3 for the Complementarian-Egalitarian Debate” – Doug Ponder
“Newsletter #13: The Lost World of American Evangelicalism” – Aaron Renn
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
“A Biblical Vision of the Sexes: Harmonious Asymmetry” – Doug Ponder
“Mere Complementarianism” – Denny Burk
“What’s In a Name? The meaning and origin of “Complementarianism”” – Denny Burk
“Is Complementarianism a Man-Made Doctrine?” – Denny Burk
“What is Biblical Patriarchy?” – Hard Men Podcast
“Reformed Resourcement: Recovering Biblical Patriarchy with Zach Garris” – The King’s Hall Podcast
“The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” – Aaron Renn
“Newsletter #30: Complementarianism is a Baby Boomer Theology That Will Die with the Baby Boomers” – Aaron Renn
“Who Should Read the Scriptures in Worship?” – O. Palmer Robertson
“SBC Says Women Not Barred From Presidency, Pastor Dwight McKissic Suggests Beth Moore” – Leonardo Blair
“Andrew Wilson says the Church Needs to Rethink Gender and Complementarianism” – Sam Hailes
“A Word of Empathy, Warning, and Counsel for “Narrow” Complementarians” – Jonathan Leeman
“Four Clarifying (I Hope) Thoughts on the Complementarian Conversation” – Kevin DeYoung
“Empathy, Feminism, and the Church” – Joe Rigney
“Does Anyone Need to Recover from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood?” – Andy Naselli
“Complementarians and the Rise of Second-Wave Evangelical Feminism” – Doug Ponder and Bryan Laughlin
The Danvers Statement
“Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality” – Steven Wedgeworth
“What About the Term ‘Patriarchy’? – CBMW Podcast
“Russell Moore’s ETS Paper: The Best Yet” – Denny Burk
“Rehabilitating Patriarchy” – Peter J. Leithart
“After Patriarchy, What? Why Egalitarians Are Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate” – Russell D. Moore
“Death to the Patriarchy?” – Kevin DeYoung
“Loss of a Good Word (Again)” – Zephram Foster
Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
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Books to Read

Jesus, Justice, and Gender Roles: A Case for Gender Roles in Ministry – Kathy Keller
Women, Authority and the Bible – ed. Alvera Mickelsen
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism – eds. John Piper & Wayne Grudem
Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives – eds. Ronald Pierce, Cynthia Westfal, et al.
God’s Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey – Andreas J. Köstenberger & Mararet Elizabeth Köstenberger
The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us – Carrie Gress
Sexual Politics – Kate Millett
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation – Mary Daly
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands – W. Bradford Wilcox

4.29 Doug Ponder • Reading • "After Complementarianism, What? Why Egalitarians Are (Still) Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate"