http://www.christianegalitarians.org Christians for Gender Equality Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:59:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The most interesting thing that happened at the Republican Convention as far as I’m concerned was the fact that the Indiana contingent were wearing buttons that said, “Hoosiers for the Hot Chick.” I liked the sassiness of it. Not sure what it did for increasing Sarah Palin’s gravitas ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/124 Although Nazarenes have been ordaining women to preaching ministries for their whole existence, over a hundred years now, Olivet is no hotbed of feminism. My sense for why the name change from Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences worked not only for the field as a whole but ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/126 What follows is part one of an article that I wrote for Christians for Biblical Equality who both asked me to write it and who turned it down. Comments as to why would be appreciated. I don’t believe that “lack of space” is the real reason. Upon the vote ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/125 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 ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/123 Colleges are rejecting women at much higher rates than men, according to an article in this week’s U.S. News & World Report. In 1980 males and females attended colleges in approximately equal numbers, in 2006 women made up 57 percent and by 2010 are expected to increase to 60 ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/122 Christians of all stripes make mistakes, but usually they are not quite as public as when a pastor stumbles in a service. I was present at a very painful service earlier this month in Ecuador which started out with good intentions but ended in fiasco. A little girl ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/121 I’ve been reading Hugh Hewitt’s Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World, which compares blogging to the Gutenberg printing press, the evils of cultural elite punditry of left-wing bias to the evils of Catholic indulgences, the undoing of the Main-Stream Media to the undoing of the medieval Catholic ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/120 Early this month a 92-year-old Turkish scholar, Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on Sumerian civilization, was acquitted by an Istanbul court of criticizing the head scarf as a poor symbol of women’s morality and religious devotion, since 5000 years ago it was used by temple prostitutes to distinguish themselves while ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/119 Much has been written recently about a Watertown, New York, elderly woman who was fired after teaching Sunday School for 54 years for simply being a woman. See the Associated Press story, Ben’s blog post and Dan’s as well. It turns out that the story is more complicated ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/118 I’ve just returned from Kenya where I was a part of a 27-person team which provided health care to Kenyans who could not afford health care in their own country. We spent the first week in western Kenya at Nyengena under the auspices of Global Health Outreach and the ... http://www.christianegalitarians.org/archives/117