My son-in-law sent me a Web link to the Assemblies of God Women in Ministry page. While pentacostals and charismatics also struggle with the truth of egalitarian approaches to church and family, there has for a very long time been a strong support of women within their churches and theology that many evangelical churches […]
Continuing in Julie Ingersoll’s book, Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles, the author relates the plight of female students at many evangelical seminaries and colleges (interviews conducted between 1993 and 1995 at seven schools in different parts of the U.S.). Gals outnumber guys at evangelical colleges. Some families prefer to […]
Chapter 3 in Julie Ingersoll’s book Evangelical Christian Women: War Stories in the Gender Battles is called “Conflict in the Lives of Individual Women.” Even women, she says here, who have been groomed and carefully nurtured to be put on the faculty of conservative educational institutions come to believe that’s it’s only an […]
The vast majority of what is published concerning Christian disagreements about gender, at least in academic writing, are logical explications in various spheres of study, such as theology, sociology, history, etc. An awful lot of this writing is rather dry and difficult to wade through, although bits of examples and stories about the affects […]
There are still a few men of a certain age in this universe who ooze chauvinism out of every pore of their bodies. They fling sexist remarks around like cigarette ash litter and pat female bums as if they owned them. Half of them don’t even know they’re doing anything amiss, and the […]
What’s so wrong with being a terror on wheels? There’s a certain “bad boy” image that is attractive to a lot of people. See How to be a Bad Boy and How Bush’s Bad-Boy Image Helps. What’s extremely odd is that women seem to fall for this type despite their verbal denials. […]
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 […]
Would God create a system that doesn’t work? He apparently allows ways of living that are less than the best because of the hardness (sinfulness) of people’s hearts (Matthew 19:8). Maybe that is why God has (perhaps heavy-heartedly) allowed patriarchalism to run rampant. But the egalitarian argument that patriarchalism is a result […]
Jane Fonda has been making the rounds of TV news shows talking about her autobiography that just came out, My Life So Far. Tim Russert interviewed her for an hour this last weekend. Two things that she said about herself struck me as particularly intriguing. First, in describing herself as a feminist […]
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 […]