“Married and unmarried women alike need to understand that they have been tasked with some of the most important areas of Christian life: instructing younger women and, frequently, children. These are gravely important things that require excellent, theologically sound, discerning women who have the maturity to recognize sin and error. Imagining that this is a feminist invention does not serve the church or the home well.”
(Zoe Miller – TruthScript) The gender war rears its ugly head yet again, this time over a character dubbed the “unsupervised woman.” So what exactly is an unsupervised woman, and why are we arguing about her?
Every now and then, conservative Christians online find themselves plunged into niche yet heated debates over the precise nature of women’s roles in marriage, the church, and society. These typically begin with someone making an extreme, totalizing statement and then letting X do its thing.
Earlier this year, a clip of Rebecca VanDoodewaard discussing singleness on Ligonier’s X account attracted hundreds of thousands of views. VanDoodewaard, a Reformed author who has written extensively on marriage and Christian womanhood, was offering encouragement to young single women who desire marriage. She encouraged unmarried women to use their present circumstances profitably, whether through education, employment, service to their churches, or care for their families.
However, her advice was interpreted by the internet through the lens of declining marriage and fertility. After all, wasn’t she simply encouraging Christian women to pursue the same advanced degrees and professional success that secular culture already celebrates?
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