The Freedom for Christian Women Coalition is demanding that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood stop publishing and promoting the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood and issue a public apology for its misuse of Holy Scripture as it relates to women.
Baptist Women for Equality (bWe) are part of the Freedom for Christian Women Coalition. This morning, Shirley Taylor, founder of bWe, mailed their demands in a letter to Randy Stinson, President, and J. Ligon Duncan, Chairman of the Board, of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood.
Links to a video of Shirley Taylor presenting these demands to the Freedom for Christian Women Coalition for approval and a podcast of Jocelyn Andersen discussing these demands will be added to this blog as they become available.
The "complementarian" interpretation of family relations -- as expressed both in the Danvers Statement and in the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message statement -- enjoys wide support among fundamentalists and evangelicals.
Mainstream Baptists support an "egalitarian" interpretation of scriptures. Here are links to some articles that present the egalitarian interpretation of family relations:
The Christian Family: Mutual Submission or Chain of Command?
Dead "Head" Leads SBC Family
Convention Ignoring Domestic Violence
Why I Didn't Sign the SBC Family Statement by Alan Brehm
Subjugating Women in the SBC
Should a Woman Serve as Pastor?
Women Who Lead
Ordination in Baptist Life
A Woman's Response to the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message
Still a Baptist Woman
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