The Klouda controversy
Here’s a story on gender discrimination that was brought to my attention on Jim West’s blog. It is one of those situations that I am both in disbelief and yet unsurprised.
FORT WORTH, Texas – A theology professor at a prominent Southern Baptist seminary said officials told her to leave because women are biblically forbidden from teaching men. (Read more here . . . )
Update (1/28/07): You can find another reflection on this on the Women in Ministry blog. Through Cheryl Schatz’s blog there, I found a link to a detailed blogging about the controversy by Wade Burlson, a Southern Baptist pastor in Enid, Oklahoma. At the moment there are 352 comments in response to his blog post. He’s hit a nerve! As a matter of fact he has several posts dedicated to this controversy and the issue of women in ministry on his blog.
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Elsewhere . . .- Blog titles beginning with "A" to "Z" on your reader Mark Goodacre
- Of making many books there is no end Chris Brady
- Free Online: The Liddell-Scott Jones Lexicon S and C
- Does Higher Criticism Attempt to “Destroy the Bible”? II agathos
- Steven J. Friesen and the Identity of Satan’s Throne in Pergamum alan
- Does Higher Criticism Attempt to “Destroy the Bible”? agathos
- Bloomsbury buys Continuum Mark Goodacre
- Imperial America Peter J. Leithart
- C.F.D. Moule on the Birth of the New Testament d. miller
- Responding to Kostenberger (with comparisons to Marshall) Jeremiah
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