Rogationtide

Covenental Complementarianism:  A Biblical Alternative Growing up in my rural Southern Baptist Church, I remember my preacher declaring from the pulpit: “Men have waffle brains; women have spaghetti brains.”  Regardless of his particular point, this revelation worried me. [1] I had a spaghetti brain! Just like he said of women, I could not stop a single thought from crossing all sorts of wires in my mind. I did not think like a man, I did not have a neat, ordered thought life.  Was he saying I was more of a woman than a man ?   He likely was operating in a performative conception of gender. This comes as no surprise, such an understanding is ubiquitous in our current society. Currently, the ontologically binary reality of men and women has been left by the wayside to such an extent that one can shift between identifying as anything on a whim. Even Evangelical Christianity is not safe from the culture’s undermining of sexual reality. One expression is the disrega...