The role of women in
the church is one of those topics that I’ve spent little time examining in this forum for various personal reasons.
But you may remember that
despite my general enthusiasm expressed a few weeks back for Frank Viola’s “reimagination” of the church in all its various aspects, I found myself unable to get on board with all his views in the
area of church authority and decision-making, and also expressed concerns about what I suspected might be Viola’s view of the
role of women in the church (though in the pages of Reimagining Church, he never quite spells it out).
Other than that, I
love much of what he has to say.