In February you may have read the story of a curate at St. Nicholas’s Church in Sevenoaks, whom the national press declared had ‘outraged his congregation’ after preaching that wives should submit to their husbands.
The teaching on male headship by the curate in question, Mark Oden, who happens to be my brother-in-law, is from 1 Peter, and is regularly preached from pulpits across the country in biblically-faithful churches.
Depressing
It is a difficult and controversial teaching among Christians, but it was depressing to see the sensationalist response of the national media after the local newspaper had picked up on the story.
