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Can you be a Christian and still believe … ?
Guess what? You can still be a Christian even if you believe that:
1. Evolution is true.
2. The Bible isn’t inerrant.
3. Women have the same rights as men.
4. Homosexuality isn’t a sin.
5. Owning a gun isn’t a God-given right.
6. America isn’t God’s chosen country.
7. Republicans aren’t God’s chosen political party.
8. The modern state of Israel isn’t God’s chosen people.
9. Decisions about abortion should be left up to individual women.
10. Non-Christians won’t burn for eternity in hell.
And you just might be a bit closer to the Kingdom of God if you do believe some of those things.

Update #1:
For those of you on Facebook, I’ve created a nice little meme of this post.

Update #2:
I’ve provided a list of resources regarding these beliefs in my follow-up post, coincidentally titled: Follow-Up: Can you be a Christian and still believe … ?
December 28, 2012
I Do Not Permit A Woman

In 1 Timothy 2.12 Paul says “I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.” (NIV2011)

What’s up with that? Is Paul really issuing a definitive command regarding women’s roles that’s binding upon all Christians today? Is this a clear directive that severely limits women’s ministry in the Church? That’s certainly how most complementarians understand this verse. But is that where the discussion ends? Paul said it, I believe it, that settles it? (more…)

November 30, 2012
Junia the Apostle

Any discussion of women’s roles in the church must take into account the apostle Junia. Paul writes in Romans 16.7, “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was” (NIV2011). Though generally accepted as a female apostle throughout church history, Junia has fallen on hard times since the Reformation: her gender has been changed (to the male Junias in the NASB, NIV1984, RSV, UBS4 and NA27) and more recently her apostleship has been questioned. (more…)

November 28, 2012
Review: A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans

Following closely in the footsteps of A.J. Jacobs’ 2007 book The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, blogger and writer Rachel Held Evans offers her own contribution to the genre of reality-show inspired memoirs in the unimaginatively titled A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master.”

Based upon Evans’ year-long exploration of what it means — and doesn’t mean — to be a “biblical” woman, A Year of Biblical Womanhood provides a powerful polemic against prevailing views of gender roles within the evangelical subculture. (more…)

October 18, 2012