by Mark Singleton It was new for both of us. I had grown up in a home where the idea of a complementarian lifestyle was completely foreign. I had never seen it happen. My wife had never met her father. She never had a father figure in her life to exemplify biblical manhood. When we...

By Owen Strachan Developing a new phase of a movement is a tricky task. At the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood (CBMW), we’ve taken on this challenge in the past year or so. It has been very exciting to me to see a whole wave of young complementarian voices emerge. Two of these are...

By Megan Hill Like most Christian families with young children, our daily life is filled with directions. Eat this. Drink that. Say you’re sorry. Please be quiet. Please speak up. Come here. Go there. Stop. Start. Wait. As the mother of three sons, I exercise my role of authority over them in thousands of ways...

By Leanne Swift I have been a proponent of complementarianism since I learned of the term a handful of years ago. I have stood by the word and will gladly defend God’s design for men, women, and marriage until my death. I’ve read marvelous material about men and women being equal in value, but different...

Owen Strachan is a PhD student in Historical Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL.  He is also the Managing Directory of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at TEDS.  We are grateful for his continued contribution to the Gender Debate at CBMW.  This post, along with many other helpful...

Today's post begins a series of posts entitled Intentional Manhood written by a good friend of CBMW, Mike Seaver. A new installment of this series will appear each Thursday for several weeks. They originally appeared last year on Mike's blog Role Calling. Mike serves on the pastoral staff of CrossWay Community Church of Charlotte, North Carolina. Mike and his wife Kristin...