Category Archives: Acts 29

Loud and proud complementarians: Pastor Matt Chandler.

Pastor Matt Chandler is at the nexus of the modern complementarian movement. He is a contributor to The Gospel Coalition (TGC), the president of the Acts 29 church planting network and a council member of the ERLC. In the video … Continue reading

Posted in Acts 29, Complementarian, Domestic Violence, Donald Trump, Doublethink, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), Loud and proud complementarians, Pastor Matt Chandler, Social Justice Warriors, The Gospel Coalition, Traditional Conservatives | 60 Comments

Every woman’s battle.

Lori Alexander warns wives in her excellent post Discontentment is a Marriage Killer: Eve stopped being thankful for the position that God put her into in the garden and seeds of discontentment were placed in her mind that reaped tragic consequences. … Continue reading

Posted in Acts 29, Dr. Raymond Force, Lori Alexander, Pastor Doug Wilson, Pastor Matt Chandler | 94 Comments

Mad Dog Chandler on Toxic Masculinity.

The #metoo era is dangerous because the rules of what is permissable are very quickly changing.  This is especially dangerous for complementarians because complementarians earn their living in the margins of what feminists are trying to destroy.  This June we … Continue reading

Posted in #MeToo, Acts 29, Cartoonish Chivalry, Complementarian, Disrespecting Respectability, Dr. Paige Patterson, Feminists, Manliness, Pastor Doug Wilson, Pastor Matt Chandler, Toxic Masculinity, Turning a blind eye, Weak men screwing feminism up, You can't make this stuff up | 132 Comments

Step up, so they don’t have to (part 1).

There is a well loved refrain, especially among complementarians, that men need to “step up”.  This is a deceptive phrase, because in reality the objective is to allow men to avoid what is difficult and uncomfortable.  It is false bravado … Continue reading

Posted in Acts 29, Complementarian, Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Dave and Ann Wilson, Denial, Disrespecting Respectability, Dr. David Clarke, Dr. Richard L. Strauss, Dr. Russell Moore, Focus on the Family, Frigidity, Glenn Stanton, Legitimacy, Manliness, Marriage, Military, Pastor Matt Chandler, Rape Culture, Rebellion, Servant Leader, Social Justice Warriors, The Gospel Coalition, The only real man in the room, The Real Feminists, Tim and Kathy Keller, Traditional Conservatives, Turning a blind eye, Weak men screwing feminism up | 161 Comments

Androcentric chimps chimping

Lore Ferguson Wilbert explains The Problem With Our Complementarianism Bit by the bug of second wave feminism in the 1960s and ‘70s, the term “complementarianism” seemed to offer conservative churches an answer. Here was a word that described how men … Continue reading

Posted in Acts 29, Complementarian, Envy, Feminists, Hannah Anderson, Jen Wilkin, Midwestern Seminary, Pastor Matt Chandler, Social Justice Warriors, The Gospel Coalition, Ugly Feminists, Wendy Alsup | 213 Comments