From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Shall we go on sinning that grace may increase? Absolutely not. The Bible has begun the process of undoing of patriarchy in the world, and we in the church are empowered by grace to live differently. /1

[On Eph 5:23]: “There are two things going on here. First, head and body were commonly used together in the first century Greco-Roman world as a metaphor for unity. Since Paul talks about unity repeatedly throughout Ephesians, it is fair to consider he is using this metaphor here. /1

“The SBC was founded by separating from the Triennial Convention in 1845 to authorize slave-owners to serve as missionaries. SBC roots are firmly planted in allegiance to a racialized social order and a corporate imagination given to the idea of division and dominion. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Make no mistake, it is a system. It involves new vocabulary (e.g., biblical “headship,” “role,” ... “complementarity” morphs into “complementarianism,” etc.), new confessions (e.g., 2000 revision to “Baptist Faith and Message”; Danvers Statement), /1

“It’s important to remember that Complementarianism is styled as a theological position only—strictly speaking, there are many complementarians who believe that women can hold positions of authority in the world, but just not the church or in the home ... /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Women are seen as owing care to people around them but are not supposed to expect it back. We know this work is important and that it has to get done. /1

“Don’t honor women by praising them for doing the few tasks you’ve relegated them to that you don’t want to do yourself. Honor women by asking them what kind of life they want to live and then celebrating them as they do.” – Rick Pidcock From: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Qgy...

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Perhaps we should allow women today to do as many things as the women of the Bible did.” - Kate Wallace Nunneley From: juniaproject.com/why-i-suppor...

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: [On the relationship between extreme and moderate forms of complementarianism]: “When it came to evangelical masculinity, the ideological extreme bore a remarkable resemblance to the mainstream. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: [On Eph 5:18-21]: "The Greek text of this passage begins with two imperatives (commands): “Do not be intoxicated with wine…but be filled with the Spirit.” /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “We are not to apply patriarchy politely. We are to live under a different system, where neither husband nor wife exerts power over the other. Our God was not a “servant leader” but an actual servant. The difference is huge ... /1

“Sexism is not just bad guys. It’s a world set up by and for men — even the “good guys.” It’s a world where the bad guys get away with horrific behavior and the supposedly “good guys” never fix it. /1

“Nothing that is asked of husbands in Ephesians 5 requires leadership; it requires love (Eph. 5:28-30, 33). Paul told the husbands in Ephesus to love their wives. He uses the Greek verb for “love” (agapaō) 6 times when addressing them in Ephesians 5:25ff. Six times! /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: [On Phil 2:5–6]: “Contrary to what one would expect of a sovereign Lord, Jesus did not regard his equality with God as a right to utilize while he lived on earth ... /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: [On Ephesians 5]: “A wife should submit all the time and every day because should the occasion ever come her husband will die for her? Note that the imagery of Christ dying on the cross has nothing to do with protectionism or benevolence. /1

“Feminism is only a threat to underachieving and ungifted men.” – Scott Baker From: www.threads.com/@thecachinna...

“Unfortunately, ego-driven men who demand submission and threaten kids with hell don’t tend to consider hell a deterrent for their own wickedness.” – Rick Pidcock From: baptistnews.com/article/when...

[On Danae Dobson’s advice to tween & teen girls]: “She goes on to quote her pastor who told her to put her abuser in “Jesus jail” meaning that God alone would deal with him. She ends her devotional asking teenagers to think about who they might need to forgive. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “A reading of the New Testament and Jesus of Nazareth in its own context points us away from all flawed forms of earthly power and authority—those based on maleness, ethnicity, on who has the larger army, who has the most wealth, etc. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: Day six of common phrases: “Men and women are equal but have different roles” means /1

“Pre-1970 ... there was no in-principle theological or biblical objection to women in leading or teaching in church or in any Christian organisation. It was just culturally exceptional. Today, we live in a profoundly egalitarian culture /1

“Come to me, all you who are struggling hard and carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Put on my yoke, and learn from me. I’m gentle and humble. And you will find rest for yourselves. My yoke is easy to bear, and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “The solution to a fragile male ego is not to teach wives how to stroke it. The solution to a fragile ego is to make it strong by seeking to form one’s identity in the right place; not as king of the house, but as a disciple of Christ. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “When we demand power based on gender or any other social identity, we are not living in the example of Christ. Christian egalitarians believe that we are called to different roles based on the gifts we have been given by Christ through the Holy Spirit. /1

“Take note of those who say things like, “I spent some time at a church with a woman preacher, and the vibes were weird,” or “I went to a church and heard a woman preach, and she was espousing heresies left and right,” as if this is proof of “what always happens” when women preach. /1

“One common tactic is to move the discussion out of the realm of debated Bible passages or stories of women in scripture, like Deborah, Huldah, Anna, Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla, Phoebe, or Junia, into the realm of some “more important” thing the church should be focusing on. /1

“The fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control. Not certainty. Not correctness. Not cultural dominance. Not political power. If what you’re building doesn’t produce the first list it doesn’t matter what you call it.” – Beau Stringer /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “If the complementarians used the same hermeneutic to understand manhood that they use to understand womanhood—that is, if they read Genesis 2 into Genesis 1—then man could only be identified as the-one-who-needs-help, /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: ““Servanthood” is incorporated as submission for women and as leadership for men. These two aspects of Christ’s one example are separated, dishonoring God. Rightly, both are true of all Christian leaders.” - Kristin Lassen /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “When Paul uses “body” language for the church, he is not talking about subordinating the church in the way “subordination” is often understood; the church isn’t being lowered, suppressed, or kept “in order” by Christ or by God. /1

“In baptism, we leave the broken story that separates men and women and puts hostility between them, and we ask for new eyes to see New Creation possibilities. /1

The history of Christ’s redemption of sin and conquest over patriarchy is why we find women and men leading side by side in the early church. Many women served as Paul’s coworkers, planting and leading house churches, /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Forever condemned to be “just Ken,” Barbie’s beau finds his identity through relationship to her. He “simps,” or fawningly submits to her, by following her into the Real World. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “Having established that apostolic vocation – the call to be a witness to the resurrection of Jesus – not only includes women, but began with them, let us simply and prayerfully reflect on vocation itself, /1

“1. Junia was a woman. 2. There is no evidence that any man had the name “Junias.” 3. Junia is a not, as some have argued, a contracted name of Junianus. 4. “Among the apostles” means Junia herself was an apostle and not simply that the apostles thought she was a good egg ... /1

“Complementarians spend an inordinate amount of time talking about how the husband is to lead the marriage ... ... But when it comes to specifics, who is it that is told to take initaitive, responsibility, and sacrifice? /1

“Our faulty and “unbiblical” beliefs about authority in the church have created a culture where abuse of all kinds seems to be flourishing, where believers are formed into passive consumers of content rather than divine image bearers with a royal-priestly calling, and where some groups of people /1

“When a denomination is filled with men — including pastors and presidents — who are willing to go out of their way to verbally abuse any woman, let alone a survivor of sexual abuse by an SBC pastor, we must examine the system. /1

“I will say, as a man, that it is time for us men to listen to the women who do speak up — the ones who say “the quiet things out loud.” It’s time for us to join them. /1

“If the ideal woman is consistently presented as small, soft, and non-threatening, then the men being formed in that environment are not just being told what to look for. /1

“I am much more concerned that boys and men are drooling over the idea of women submitting to their innate power and lordship than women studying the sacrificial love of Jesus. /1

“Complementarianism isn’t just a “second order doctrine. ”It’s a soul-crushing system that imprisons women inside dehumanizing “roles.” It steals our freedom in Christ and puts us to work in service of men, pastors, husbands, then tells us this is “beautiful” and “God’s created order.” /1

“Often, the church’s system positions a woman as lesser while simultaneously assuring her that she is valued. Sometimes the harm is obvious; other times, it’s subtle. This is why a woman can remain in it for so long, often in self-denial about what she is really experiencing. /1

““I found Jesus because a sexist man with a podcast who can't read Hebrew or Greek but knows what Bible translations are too woke insulted me on social media” is not being shared in any testimonies at a baptismal service, my brothers in Christ.”– Jean-Daniel Ó Donncada /1

“The language of belonging in the early church=siblinghood, & norm appears to be brothers & sisters co-laboring together. This practice across church history sanctioned things like female vocational orders & male vocational orders, oftentimes born as twin movements. /1

[On the teaching that lust is “every man's battle”]: “If we know a message is: (1) Untrue (2) Does harm (3) Isn't in line with Scripture, ...then why do men want to hold on to it?”– Sheila Gregoire From: www.threads.com/@sheilagrego...

“The greatest beneficiary of complementarianism are mediocre men. Because if you're mediocre as a speaker, as a teacher, as a leader, you're more likely to find a position if half the population is barred from that position. But the moment you allow women into the mix, mediocre men lose. /1

[On the Greek verb authentein in 1 Timothy 2:12]: “If this word is unsuitable to describe the proper action of a church elder, it follows that in 1 Timothy 2:12 Paul is not talking about who may properly exercise authority within the church. Instead, he is prohibiting bad behaviour. /1

From the Orthodox Barbie archives: “You know what the problem with the church is? Women.There's just too many of them. It just feels so feminine. When they do things wrong, let's say that that's why they shouldn't do things, and when they do things right, /1

“But I see this story in John 20 as something more than Thomas and his doubt. I would like to call him something else. Maybe we call him “Traumatized Thomas” or “Grieving Thomas.” /1