This Sunday, Bonnie Giles explored What Paul Really Thinks About Women, showing that Scripture affirms women as equal partners in God’s Kingdom and that 1 Timothy 2 can be read as a local, situational correction rather than a timeless restriction.

Below are a number of resources Bonnie recommended.

Resources:

Books

• How God Sees Women - Terran Williams
• Different but Equal - Derek Morphew
• Equal - Katia Adams
• Man and Woman, One in Christ - Philip B. Payne

Articles

• Rich Nathan - What the bible really teaches about women in leadership

Other theologians and authors

• N.T Wright
• Tim Mackie (Bible Project)

Women in Leadership that Paul mentions in his letters

• Phoebe – Romans 16: 1-2 

• Junia – Romans 16: 7 

• Priscilla – Acts 18: 24-26 & Romans 16:3-5

• Chloe – 1 Corinthians 1:11

• Euodia & Syntyche – Philippians 4: 2-3

• Lydia – Acts 16:14

• Tryphena, Tryphosa & Persis – Romans 16: 12

• Nympha – Colossians 4: 15