(ChurchLeaders) Earlier this week, the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) singled out one Texas church for criticism as part of a fundraising push in their newsletter. Instead of giving to the CBMW, many donors opted to give to the church CBMW criticized instead.
That church was First Baptist Church of Elm Mott, where the husband of author and Christian historian Beth Allison Barr serves as lead pastor. Barr is the author of “The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth,” wherein Barr recasts a vision for gender roles in the evangelical church, making the case for an egalitarian view.
CBMW, which exists to promote the complementarian view of gender, is apparently very concerned with the success and influence of Barr’s book, making mention of it in their November newsletter alongside “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,” which was authored by historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez.