The recent cover of Washingtonian magazine caught my eye. The cover text trumpeted “powerful women” and featured photos of many gifted ladies. But as I scanned the cover, I noticed one “job” missing from the list of Senators, CEOs, and small-business owners: homemaker.
This omission reminded me of the distinction between a Christian theology of womanhood and a secular vision of womanhood. Our culture esteems “power” but does not esteem servanthood. Yet the Christian theology of womanhood—just like the biblical image of manhood, marriage, and the family—upends our expectations. In the kingdom of Christ, servanthood is exalted, selfless cultivation of one’s children is God-honoring, and self-sacrifice is nothing less than divine.
Not so in the world, and in our world. The family is for many an afterthought in today’s hyper-paced, brand-building, careerist age. But in Scripture, the family is the first institution. Created in Genesis 2, it is the stage on which God’s beautiful design of men and women is lived out, a drama that flows mellifluously as men and women play their parts.
Thankfully, ours is not the first generation to know these despised truths. Martin Luther and John Calvin represent two theologians of the Reformation, that Bible-driven movement so long ago, who
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