Cindy K

Kick some aner?  ROFLOL!

Don,

I heard NOTHING of this gender business until the mid-nineties.  (I grew up egal and dropped back to “no women pastors or elders” to be conservative.)  I never had one clue that any Christian even took this stuff all that seriously.  Since then, I’ve only seen it increase, largely through my peer group and then into para-church organizations that never dreamed would ever take such a position.  People have always been legalistic about dress, and there are examples like Elizabeth Elliot (and George Elliot, for that matter) who were role models outside of my own denomination.  There have been women missionaries, etc.

That’s another reason why I don’t understand Stinson in particular, professing that this is all a late 20th Century perversion, or even one of Enlightenment thought (such as was suggested back on that Mere Christianity thread).  Why was I taught what is essentially now considered “egal” by both old men and women (Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic and Pentecostal) who were in their ’80s (back in the ’70s), teaching me what they had learned?  If these are all modern teachings resulting from late 20th century feminism and perhaps from women’s suffrage, who corrupted these men and women in their Victorian/Edwardian days and their Victorian parents before them?  Stinson uses some odd mathmatics and history.