Articles for tag: Junia

January 29, 2019

Christian Standard

Q. Should Women Be Involved in Church Leadership and Preaching Roles? (A. YES)

By Lorelei Pinney Nij   It is incredible the modern church remains mired in the centuries-old debate of the role of women in ministry. In the late 1970s, when I was a senior at Dallas Christian College, one of my professors challenged me to examine this topic using only Scripture as my prooftext. It was enlightening and empowering to discover the principle limitations on women were not divinely inspired but were placed on them by men.   Jesus’ View of Women I explored this question first: “How did Jesus treat women and what did he teach about women?” It is

March 6, 2014

Christian Standard

Should Women Preach? (The Story of One Bible College Faculty’s Quest for an Answer)

By Matt Proctor In the book Children’s Letters to God, one young girl wrote: “Dear God, are boys better than girls? I know you are one, but try to be fair.” It’s an age-old question: what does God think about women and, specifically, women’s roles in the church? It’s also a controversial question. The April 2013 article “Women Preaching” generated more comments on CHRISTIAN STANDARD’s website than any other article last year. The article mentioned that Ozark Christian College offers a preaching class for women, and some readers wondered about the biblical rationale for such a class. (By the way,

April 1, 2007

Christian Standard

Why Scholarship Matters in the Church

By Robert F. Hull Jr. It was Tertullian (ca. ad 200) who famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the Academy to do with the Church?” (Prescription Against Heretics, 7). Ironically, his own polished rhetoric shows his indebtedness to higher learning, which enabled him to write essays both in Greek and Latin in the service of his faith. Moreover, had he not been schooled in philosophy, he could not have argued so skillfully against it. Scholarship Matters It is still not unusual to find high-level scholarship derided as a sterile, if not dangerous, undertaking for those

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