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This is a teaching that directly impacts homes, subjecting whole families to whatever kinds of leadership husbands decide they are divinely entitled to. The BF&M 2000 Section on the Family says “A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband.”

When men are taught they have authority over women, this complementarian t...

When a church does not allow women deacons or elders it is more than likely a complementarian church, even if the church never uses the word. If a megachurch has a husband and wife team as pastors, the husband is always the lead, and it, too, is more likely a complementarian church. If a pastor evades the question when asked what position the church takes, it is very likely t...

Non-denominational Churches also subscribe to the misogyny of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Danvers Statement.

One day while walking in my neighborhood, a neighbor who is a non-denominational pastor’s wife, told me they use Baptist literature in their church teaching. I knew of her husband, but she had no way of knowing that I knew who he ...

In addition to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, SBC seminaries have also adopted the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood as their charter statement. At least five of the six Southern Baptist seminaries have adopted it. Gateway Baptist Theological Seminary does not list it on their website, but possibly has adopted it.

Seminaries are where young (a...

The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BF&M 2000) placed strict limitations on women in the church and in their own homes. It is these restrictions that Rev. Al Mohler wants to heavy-handedly enforce, because some SBC churches have allowed a tiny number of women to serve as Pastors, and also such as Children’s Pastor which is mostly led by women, and Women’s Pastor, which is...