I’ll be presenting 3 seminars at the Twin Lakes Bible Conference in Aptos, California May 13 on WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ABOUT WOMEN IN MINISTRY? The seminars will give biblical answers to seven objections to women in leadership in the church and in the home with time for Q&A after each objection.
This is the LINK to download the talk. This is the LINK to download the PowerPoint.
The Christian Post has recently published five articles they requested I submit:
3/31/2023 Can women be pastors? What I discovered during 50 years of research. https://www.christianpost.com/voices/can-women-be-pastors-what-i-found-during-50-years-of-research.html
4/19/2023 Does 1 Timothy 2:12-15 prohibit women from teaching or having authority over men? https://www.christianpost.com/voices/does-1-timothy-212-15-prohibit-women-having-authority-over-men.html
4/27/2023 Does I Corinthians say women have to cover their heads? https://www.christianpost.com/voices/does-i-corinthians-say-women-have-to-cover-their-heads.html
5/2/2023 Does the Bible teach male headship? https://www.christianpost.com/voices/does-the-bible-teach-male-headship.html
5/7/2023 What Ephesians 5 really teaches about husband-wife submission? https://www.christianpost.com/voices/what-ephesians-5-really-means-about-husband-wife-submission.html
Preston Sprinkle invited one female and one male scholar to present a biblical defense of the complementarian (Sydney Park and Gerry Breshears) and egalitarian (Cynthia Long Westfall and me) views at the Theology in the Raw Symposium on Women in Leadership in Boise, Idaho March 23.
Click HERE to see my 20-minute talk that distills my last 50 years of research that changed my mind regarding four key objections to women in leadership and HERE to download my PowerPoint to your downloads folder.
I argue that Paul usually uses “head” to convey “source,” not male headship, that 1 Timothy 2:12 addresses a crisis of false teaching in Ephesus—where some women had followed after Satan—by prohibiting women from seizing authority to teach a man, that Paul encourages all believers to aspire to the office of overseer in 1 Timothy 3:1, and that external and internal evidence shows that 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 was not in Paul’s original letter.
Just today I received copies of my new Zondervan book: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood:
How God’s Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality, 223 pages. Click HERE to see it.
It is written for non-specialists to make complex ideas as simple and clear as possible. It includes extensively updated material on 1 Corinthians 14:34–35, including photographs of all 16 two-dot plus bar (distigme-obelos) symbols in the oldest Bible in Greek, Codex Vaticanus B.
Beth Allison Barr writes: “Payne makes it clear that ‘biblical womanhood’ has never been biblical. His careful analysis provides unshakeable ground that we can believe both in the Bible and in the full freedom of women to serve however God has called them.”
Click HERE to see other endorsements.
https://www.amazon.com/Bible-vs-Biblical-Womanhood-Consistently-ebook/dp/B0B5CVBJ4R states that it is the “#1 New Release in Gender & Sexuality in Religious Studies” and sells it for $17.99 paperback, $12.99 Kindle.
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