“Why would anyone choose to live like that?” That was the question we raised, but didn’t answer, when discussing John Piper’s weirdly fraught prescription for how patriarchal “complementarians” ought to treat every single encounter between men and women. The answer, I suppose, is that — as Mel Brooks said — “It’s good to be the king.” For Piper, every interaction between men and women is and ought to be shaped by the hierarchy he imagines to be normative. Men are... Read more
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