Because the Disobedient Don’t Care

“Settling this exegetically won’t settle anything, as the last several decades have demonstrated. If there is enormous pressure to go in this direction, and there is, then we need to bring the gospel to bear on what is causing that pressure, and stop bringing isolated texts to the symptoms of that pressure. Trying to stop the movement toward women’s ordination by means of mere textual arguments is like trying to keep a volcano from blowing by putting a tarp over it” (Why Ministers Must be Men, p. 41).