Welcome to this replay of AskNT Write Anything, where we go back into the archives to bring you the best of the thought and theology of Tom Wright, answering questions submitted by you, the listener.

You can find more episodes as well as many more resources for exploring faith at premier unbelievable.com, and registering there will unlock access through the newsletter to updates, free bonus videos and

ebooks. That's premier unbelievable.com. And now for today's replay of Ask Entie Right Anything.

Great delight to be joined by Entie Wright again for today's edition of the show. And we're looking

at issues around women and gender today.

And we're fully aware that we're both two men talking to issues around with women and gender.

But lots of people want to have your thoughts, especially on the biblical questions,

in the way this interacts with scripture, Tom. Now, right at the top, I'm going to point people back to one of our early

episodes of the Ask Into Write Anything podcast. Number six is titled female church leadership,

complementarity and marriage. And we did something of a deep dive actually into one particular

one particular passage, First Timothy two, which has often been used by many to suggest

that there's a complementarian view that only men should be leaders or teachers in churches

and why you don't think that's the correct reading of that particular passage.

And you've spoken in many contexts about your affirmation of women

in church leadership roles and preaching and so on. And some of the questions we've got here

will want to dig into that in different ways as well. But let's talk about the concept of

gender and joy in Virginia says, my question is,

it seems that we see gender roles democratized in the Bible, other than roles in the church,

women leadership. How does the Bible view gender? Joy goes on to say, of course, there's the

biological differences, but I'm confused as to how to view biblical manhood and womanhood. In short,

what differentiates a man and woman other than biology? The question is more on my mind these days

as I'm raising two young girls, and we're being faced head-on with gender identity in schools and churches in my area. I'm raising two young girls and we're being faced head on with gender identity

...