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Hello Deb. Welcome.

Lately I’ve been entertaining the idea that there may be many out there who claim to complementarian views who indeed are more egalitarian. And also, that perhaps there is an area of egalitarian that overlaps quite well with complementarian thinking. I call that being complementary without hierarchy.

Part of the reason I think that is very possible is that the term complementarian was coined by a small group of people in order to make patriarchal views more palatable by reason of the mutuality of the word complementary. Because most people are not aware of the foundation of the word and what positions some have formed “underneath it”, they have identified primarily with the word ‘complementary’. And fact is that true Biblical equality is very complementary in nature at its core.