By Baptist Press Even before U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military was lifting its ban on women in combat, professor and theologian Owen Strachan was speaking out against such a possibility, saying it not only went against Scripture but also defied common sense. The new executive director of the Council on Biblical...

Link to full article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323539804578260132111473150.html?mod=googlenews_wsj By Ryan Smith, The Wall Street Journal America has been creeping closer and closer to allowing women in combat, so Wednesday’s news that the decision has now been made is not a surprise. It appears that female soldiers will be allowed on the battlefield but not in the infantry. Yet...

By Owen Strachan, CBMW Executive Director Complementarian Christians are the most pro-women people around. We love women. We rejoice in them. We celebrate them. Many of us in actual terms are “them,” of course! We know that God has created them with dignity and worth. We know that their structure and form display his ingenuity...

[NOTE: In light of today’s troubling decision to remove the restriction on women in combat in the U.S. armed forces, we offer the following complementarian perspective on the issue by CBMW’s executive director from Christianity Today’s blog. See Gender Blog for further biblical analysis of this development over the next few days.] By Owen Strachan, CBMW Executive Director...