In a new book titled Why Christian Women Convert to Islam, Rosemary Sookhdeo says that 30,000 Christians have converted to Islam over the last decade, the majority of them women. In their formative years they get disillusioned with Christianity, discover the simplicity of Islam, and under a blossoming romance, convert. Or perhaps […]
A wonderful opinion piece appeared in the Chicago Tribune on September 6, 1998, shortly after the Southern Baptists reimbraced a patriarchal social order. The Northwestern University law professor wrote the following.
“Though I yield to no person in my commitment to the accepted tenets of gender equality, I actually took some satisfaction in the Baptists’ […]
Were ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish cultures more liberating for women than the early church? Dr. Craig Keener argues that there was a range of perspectives on women in the cultures where the early church found itself, but that Paul was more liberating in his writings about women than any other writer of his […]
All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, but in all of them a woman is inferior to a man. — Plato: The Republic V.v.
I hate a learned woman. May there never be in my abode a woman knowing more than a woman ought to know. — Euripides.
Women are […]