Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen’s lecture on C.S. Lewis was outstanding. Her talk, “A Sword Between the Sexes: C.S. Lewis’ Long Journey to Gender Equality” is available on CD at Equality Depot. Basically, she picked out all of Lewis’s statements on gender equality throughout his writings. Early in his career Lewis’s writings imply his […]
Having taught Mere Christianity in small group over the last year, I was not pleased with the comments C.S. Lewis makes in this book that he published early in his writing career. It was of great interest to me, then, to see this topic addressed at the CBE conference by Dr. Mary Stewart Van […]
Medine Moussounga Keener’s workshop, “The African Women’s Struggle”
Medine’s personal story of life in Congo, Africa, was quite moving. She spoke from her personal experience and the experience of her friends and family.
Topics Medine covered in her workshop included women’s health, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and the devastation of war. She described how governmental corruption, war […]
I’ve had Kathleen Norris’ work recommended to me a number of times, but hadn’t picked up any of her books until this weekend. Her Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith is her struggle with the jargon of Christianity, of what she calls the “scary words.” Her process of conversion involved the reading of […]
I don’t believe there is much in the way of happy one-way submission in the world amongst couples. Christian hierarchicalists, if they get around to it, try to emphasize that Christian men are to lay down their lives for their wives, but heavens, never submit to them. On the rare occasion that he […]
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 […]
Evangelicals believe that the Bible is the inerrant, inspired Word of God that is the final authority for faith and practice. Serious differences appear, however, in translating what the Bible says into practice. Hierarchicalists believe that the Bible says that God ordains separate roles for men and women as a part of the […]
Awhile back, a number of years ago, I chaired the Artist-Lecture Series committee at the University where I work, and I hired a well-known Evangelical feminist to come and speak. She came and did a fine job at presenting and defending her point of view, but I don’t remember a single thing she said […]