Ben Witherington: Why Arguments Against Women in Ministry Aren’t Biblical

From here:

Now of course equally sincere Christians may disagree on this matter [of women’s ordination], but the disagreements should be on the basis of sound exegesis of Biblical texts, not emotions, rhetoric, mere church polity, dubious hermeneutics and the like. So in this post I am going to deal with the usual objections to women in ministry, one by one.  Some of these objections come out of a high church tradition, some tend to come from low church traditions,  some are Catholic/Orthodox  some are Protestant, but we will take on a sampling of them all without trying to be exhaustive or exhausting.

In my opinion, a very good piece. We need to have more conversations that are based on biblical exegesis rather than on sheer emotion and rancor. Read it all.