About the Episode

Will the real complementarians please stand up? Why it's time for thick/broad/natural complementarians to embrace the label of "biblical patriarchy" to differentiate themselves from the declining thin/narrow/ideological complementarians.

 Resources to Click

• “After Complementarianism, What? Why Egalitarians Are (Still) Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate” – Doug Ponder
• “Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability” – Doug Ponder
• “Male and Female He Created Them: The Implications of a Paradigmatic Reading of Genesis 1-3 for the Complementarian-Egalitarian Debate” – Doug Ponder
• “Newsletter #13: The Lost World of American Evangelicalism” – Aaron Renn
• Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
• “A Biblical Vision of the Sexes: Harmonious Asymmetry” – Doug Ponder
• “Mere Complementarianism” – Denny Burk
• “What’s In a Name? The meaning and origin of “Complementarianism”” – Denny Burk
• “Is Complementarianism a Man-Made Doctrine?” – Denny Burk
• “What is Biblical Patriarchy?” – Hard Men Podcast
• “Reformed Resourcement: Recovering Biblical Patriarchy with Zach Garris” – The King’s Hall Podcast
• “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” – Aaron Renn
• “Newsletter #30: Complementarianism is a Baby Boomer Theology That Will Die with the Baby Boomers” – Aaron Renn
• “Who Should Read the Scriptures in Worship?” – O. Palmer Robertson
• “SBC Says Women Not Barred From Presidency, Pastor Dwight McKissic Suggests Beth Moore” – Leonardo Blair
• “Andrew Wilson says the Church Needs to Rethink Gender and Complementarianism” – Sam Hailes
• “A Word of Empathy, Warning, and Counsel for “Narrow” Complementarians” – Jonathan Leeman
• “Four Clarifying (I Hope) Thoughts on the Complementarian Conversation” – Kevin DeYoung
• “Empathy, Feminism, and the Church” – Joe Rigney
• “Does Anyone Need to Recover from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood?” – Andy Naselli
• “Complementarians and the Rise of Second-Wave Evangelical Feminism” – Doug Ponder and Bryan Laughlin
• The Danvers Statement
• “Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality” – Steven Wedgeworth
• “What About the Term ‘Patriarchy’? – CBMW Podcast
• “Russell Moore’s ETS Paper: The Best Yet” – Denny Burk
• “Rehabilitating Patriarchy” – Peter J. Leithart
• “After Patriarchy, What? Why Egalitarians Are Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate” – Russell D. Moore
• “Death to the Patriarchy?” – Kevin DeYoung
• “Loss of a Good Word (Again)” – Zephram Foster
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
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Books to Read

• Jesus, Justice, and Gender Roles: A Case for Gender Roles in Ministry – Kathy Keller
• Women, Authority and the Bible – ed. Alvera Mickelsen
• Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism – eds. John Piper & Wayne Grudem
• Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives – eds. Ronald Pierce, Cynthia Westfal, et al.
• God’s Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey – Andreas J. Köstenberger & Mararet Elizabeth Köstenberger
• The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us – Carrie Gress
• Sexual Politics – Kate Millett
• Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation – Mary Daly
• Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands – W. Bradford Wilcox