Heather Riggleman
Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
2021
14 Apr
The first dust-up I ever experienced over gender roles within the church as a woman left me feeling insignificant and second class. Apparently, it was ‘okay’ for me to teach Sunday School but not lead a Bible study class filled with women and men. Situations like this have happened on more than one occasion and in light of Beth Moore’s recent tweets, she’s making the world question, “Have Christians had gender roles wrong all this time?”
Last week, Beth asked Christians for forgiveness via Twitter because she had been too ‘complicit’ in making “complementarianism a litmus test for faith.” On the heels of Beth’s split with the Southern Baptist Convention, she apologized for supporting theology that restricts women. As one of the most well-known preachers in the world, she has rankled the feathers of many who believe women are not allowed to preach, which is why Beth has made the declaration for years that she is a