Developed as a mailing to pastors, this special edition journal, Correcting Caricatures, combines compelling personal stories and rigorous academic research to explore God’s ideal for women and men in ministry. In doing so, the articles respond to many of the common objections to mutual leadership in the church.
“Finally, woman was never meant to be a ‘helpmate,’ no matter which force is given to this word ʿēzer. The Old English ‘meet’ or ‘suitable to’ slipped to a new English word, ‘mate.’ But what God had intended was to make her a ‘power’ or ‘strength,’ who would in every respect ‘correspond to’ the man, that is, to be ‘his equal.’” (Page 7)