This new title, an edited volume to which I have contributed a chapter, has just been released: God’s Yes to Women: Why the Bible’s Vision of Partnership Is Good News for Us All. Although published in the United States, it is written by Australians (with the exception of Aimee Byrd, who wrote the foreward) primarily...Read More

Marriage in the New Testament is often discussed through the lens of authority and submission. However, 1 Pet 3:7 uses the term synklēronomos to describe a wife in relation to her husband. The term means coheir or inheriting together with.[1] In an edited volume, God’s Yes to Women: Why the Bible’s Vision of Partnership Is Good...Read More

Contemporary theological accounts of gender—complementarianism and egalitarianism as previously outlined—serve as part background to my own proposed doctoral research: One Flesh: A Literary and Socio-Rhetorical Study of the Pauline (and Deutero-Pauline) Marriage Texts.[1] Expressed more simply, I am exploring the apostle Paul’s writings about marriage with reference to their first-century social setting. Given the intersection...Read More