Instead of v. 11 speaking of female deacons, the alternative explanation is that Paul has lesser requirements for women because they do not actually hold office.
Considering Jesus’ practice of only appointing men as apostles, there is a significant burden on those claiming Junia was a woman apostle. And that burden simply has not been met.
It was not that a husband’s authority and a wife’s submission were introduced as a result of the fall (as some egalitarians claim happened in Genesis 3:16), but rather that this hierarchical relationship was part of the created order and was now frustrated by the fall.
At root, Rachel Green Miller is an egalitarian. While she may affirm that only men can be pastors and give lip service to male headship in the home, she is sowing the seeds of feminism.
