Kay

“What’s in a name? Leadership that does not involve selfish unilateral choices but strives for the ideal of agreement smells like mutuality.”

sm,
Perhaps the subject matter has tainted their doctrine.

Things put forward by CBMW don’t normally smell that good. Case in point John Starke’s blog post:
“It is important to realize, when reading Baxter and the Puritans…They simply assumed the clear, biblical teaching of a husband’s authority in the family and a wife’s JOYFUL submission. So then, at one level, Baxter?s direction for women wouldn’t sound too different than John Piper’s or Wayne Grudem’s.”
A sample of Piper’s advice:
“If it’s not requiring her to sin but simply hurting her, then I think she endures verbal abuse for a season, and she endures perhaps being smacked one night, and then she seeks help from the church.”