Bonus Q&A (Women In Leadership)

Theology in the Raw

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Subscribe to Theology in the Raw on Patreon to instantly unlock this full Bonus Q&A on women in leadership! You’ll also have access to a huge archive of bonus episodes, Extra Innings, and free video content from the Exiles in Babylon archives. Here’s the questions you’ll find when you unlock the full episode!* Are Egalitarian arguments similar to arguments from pro LGBTQ theologians? * 1 Corinthians 12 gives a list of spiritual gifts for church leadership and specifically doesn’t mention sex distinction. Are these roles specific to men only? * Which is a bigger risk - being wrongly complementarian or being wrongly egalitarian? What price do we pay in each case?* How do complementarians rationalize listening to female academics (such as those on your podcast) when they say Biblically women can't teach men?* “1 Tim 2:11: ‘A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.’ Once culturally liberating, now often restrictive—how do you handle that tension?”* In Eph 5, ppl teach about men & women like it transcends culture over time, but the bit on slaves is taught differently. How can we know how to differentiate?* How should the fact that Jesus chose 12 male Jewish apostles inform this question?* What is the complementarian rationale for keeping male/female distinctions while no longer keeping slave/free and Jew/Greek distinctions in Gal. 3:28?* Paul says, “ I do not permit a women to teach” he didn’t Say “God does not allow a women to teach” do you make anything about this being a “Paul” command Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, the first question I want to address was actually sent in through the Theology in the Raw website.
0:07.2	It wasn't part of the Q&A that I sent out to the patrons.
0:13.3	But this question was so good.
0:15.3	And I really wanted to address it.
0:18.5	I'm not going to give the name the person who sent us in because
0:21.3	it was a private question, but it's such a good one. And I think a lot of people might have the
0:28.0	same question. So I want to address it. So the person, so this has to do, her question has to do
0:34.2	with an episode that I have already recorded with Sandy Richter, Dr. Sandy
0:39.7	Richter. The conversation I had with Sandy Richter was a vibrant one, lively one, but a very
0:46.3	academic one. We dug deep into, oh, the Artemis cults in Ephesus and the historical background of First Timothy, too,
0:56.2	among many other historical things going on behind the scenes when the Bible was written.
1:05.0	So it was a very academic conversation.
1:08.0	This person says, it appeared from the conversation that only those with vast
1:14.3	academic knowledge could truly interpret this subject properly. This would be unfortunate.
1:19.5	And then they go on to say, I feel as though this issue is very similar to the same-sex marriage
1:23.8	issue. Everything Sandy said in that in the after portion of the interview, how difficult
1:29.9	things were for her, how she was excluded from certain areas, how the Holy Spirit was leading here,
1:35.8	that conversation has been repeated over and over again by Christians who support same-sex
1:39.8	marriage. You know, things like I know this is God's call in my life. God has opened these doors
1:44.6	from me. I never felt so alive. This is where I'm most fulfilled. Just as a church has treated LGBTQ
1:49.7	people horribly, yes, it has also treated women horribly. How we address these issues certainly has
1:54.9	room for tremendous growth and care and adjustments were needed. But I think many people, including myself, would be more comfortable
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