Why Preston Sprinkle Changed His Mind On Women Pastors

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Preston Sprinkle about his shift from a complementarian to an egalitarian view on women in church leadership.

Text us your questions! We talk with Preston Sprinkle about his book From Genesis to Junia and the long road from a John MacArthur shaped complementarian framework to an egalitarian view that affirms women teaching, preaching, and leading in the church. We dig into the passages that always show up in this debate (especially 1 Timothy 2, along with Paul’s wider world), but we keep pulling the camera back to ask harder questions about biblical interpretation and hermeneutics. Is the Bible a bl...

People in this episode

Hosts: Randy Knie, Kyle Whitaker

Guest: Preston Sprinkle

Topics covered

• women pastors
• complementarianism
• egalitarianism
• biblical interpretation
• hermeneutics

Keywords

• women in ministry
• church leadership
• biblical passages
• gender roles
• theology

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: From Genesis to Junia, 1 Timothy 2

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