complementarianism

Everyone knows Britney Spears. Her talent, popularity, and struggles with mental illness are ubiquitous. A widely celebrated artist dubbed “The Princess of Pop,” Spears has five No. 1 singles and six…

After the Trump years and the January 6 insurrection , in which recognizably evangelical prayers and symbols featured prominently, America’s conservative, mostly white evangelical Christians aren’t…

In the midst of tense debates around race, gender, and partisan politics, the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention made waves by narrowly electing Ed Litton, a white Alabama pastor known for his…

The departure of Russell Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention has been a long time coming. As I noted here on RD last March, since the completion of the right-wing coup known in SBC circles as…

Dear Beth: Confession: I am a clergywoman ordained in the Southern Baptist tradition who has completely denounced complementarianism as an institutional, theological, and scriptural concept. I am also…

I was raised in the LDS Church. In fact, I’m a sixth-generation Mormon. Or, rather, I was a Mormon until just over a decade ago when I left the church for a variety of reasons, including, but not…

In ‘Pure,’ Klein tells the stories of women wrestling with anxiety, sexual dysfunction, crises of religious identity, and even a kind of religious-based PTSD.

If conservative Christians want to challenge the misogyny in their institutions, they should be applauded and supported. But their call for change will remain problematic as long as they claim Biblical inerrancy as their reason for this call.

While abuse exists in all circles and all faiths, there is a unique theological problem that creates a culture of apology for abuse within the SBC.

Albert Mohler, known colloquially as “Al,” is the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He’s also one of the most prominent voices in American evangelicalism…