Can egalitarians and complementarians really get along?

Abigail Flavell wonders whether the conflict that surrounds the ‘gender roles’ debate could be an invitation from God to greater love, unity and reconciliation

If you are familiar with the terms ‘egalitarian’ and ‘complementarian’, I guarantee the title and introduction of this article have either made you scoff loudly or lean in just a little closer. These terms represent a spectrum of contentious views around the way that scripture is interpreted. It’s an argument that has been going on for…well, ever; about whether men and women were given specific roles to carry out by God, all the way back at the beginning when he first made humankind. One set of people think he did. One set of people think he didn’t. Another set of people don’t care at all.