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To: Popman
I think the guy has a point, but this statement is proving hard to digets:
“Evangelicals maintain headship in the sphere of ideas, but practical decisions are made in most evangelical homes through a process of negotiation, mutual submission, and consensus,” Moore said. “That’s what our forefathers would have called feminism – and our foremothers, too.”

I attempt to operate as the biblical head, but the above sounds like a fair description of my household, and it also sounds like Ephesians 5. Headship implies an ultimate authority, but it would seem to be an abuse of that authority not to take the other person's wishes into account and, unless there's a good reason not to, accommodating them.

8 posted on 12/31/2005 5:23:06 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;...
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself....
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

The rest of Ephesians about covers your concerns

16 posted on 12/31/2005 5:37:39 AM PST by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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