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Do women need to follow the commands of 1 Peter?

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Suggested Additional Sources for Reading

• Christians for Biblical Equality: http://www.cbeinternational.org.


• Rebecca Groothuis, Good News for Women: A Biblical Picture of Gender
  Equality (Baker Books, 1996).


• Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into
  Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Vintage, 2010).


• Mitzi Minor, The Power of Mark’s Story (Chalice Press, 2002).


• Mitzi Minor, The Spirituality of Mark: Responding to God (Westminster John
  Knox Press, 1996).


• Mitzi Minor, “The Women of the Gospel of Mark and Contemporary
  Women’s Spirituality,” Spirituality Today: http://www.spiritualitytoday
  .org/spir2day/91432minor.html.


• Heidi Bright Parales, Hidden Voices: Biblical Women and Our Christian
  Heritage (Smyth & Helwys, 1998).

Suggested Questions for Further Discussion/Thought

1. What does “mutual submission” mean to you?


2. Wrestle with the differences between egalitarian and complementary
   views of marriage. Which resonate with you and why?


3. What are the possible negative consequences for women of reading
   1 Peter as a description of God’s ideal? Are there possible negative
   consequences for men? For humanity?


4. Can you think of other examples in the Bible where a passage written to
   a particular faith community at a specifi c time is interpreted as applicable
   to all times and situations?


5. Find an important letter or e-mail you wrote recently or one you received.
   Now consider the letter from the perspective of someone two thousand
   years in the future. Which parts of the letter would you want them to live
   by? Which would you want them to ignore?

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