Tag: egalitarianism
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Reinventing the Radical Proposition that Women are People
I keep being astonished at how quickly the recent past becomes ancient history, and how that impels the reinvention of the same wheels, over and over, generation after generation. I’m a slower learner than I think, I guess. Because feminism is old. Anne Hutchinson old. Married Women’s Property Acts old. Votes for Women old. International…
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Shaking Things Up
People can get stuck thinking they have understood God, but the Holy Spirit shakes things up. Fortunately, since we seem to need shaking up. We seem to have a tendency to get comfortable with the wrong things. Our pastor pointed out on Sunday that the lectionary reading for the Sixth Sunday of Easter this year…
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Who Makes the To Do List?
I got to thinking about “complementarianism” and “egalitarianism” this past week, of bicentennial celebration madness at our church. We took on A LOT of planning and preparation, and by “we” I mean the members of the planning task force, and then the various other individuals we enlisted to do all the kinds of things that…
Matters of Interpretation 