Curt Purcell* Even if they appear to be otherwise, oppressive situations … are inherently unstable. Patricia Hill Collins1 Some time ago, J. I. Packer published a short piece in Christianity Today, titled “Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters.”2 As the title suggests, this piece is a straightforward example of the age-old attempt to justify the treatment of women as second-class and substandard—an oppressive gesture, even if unintended as such. However, if
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