Letter To My President: Women Matter_Feb 2017
I would love to see your commitment to the advancement of women be a part of your administration.… Read More Letter To My President: Women Matter_Feb 2017
Category: Biblical Gender Equality
Do Women Need Sex???
It always helps to see things through a fresh set of eyes. That’s what happened to me after four years of my daughter’s reading through the Bible each year. She started noticing and querying me about some patterns she noticed in the Scriptures. One that she always mentions every year is the seemingly eternal and… Read More Do Women Need Sex???
When We Separate Love And Respect
There’s been popular teachings that separate love and respect in such a way that says ‘men need respect and women need love’ and that the relationship of men and women only succeeds on a model where men receive respect from women and women receive love from men. But I would argue that there’s a danger… Read More When We Separate Love And Respect
Ain’t I A Woman Too?
“After Jesus, it’s simply not important…Our impact on the world is no longer measured by how many children we raise…I don’t need to give birth to any children to follow God’s plan for my life. I don’t need to raise any.”… Read More Ain’t I A Woman Too?
I Won’t Apologize…
I will apologize for many things, like when I sin against God and or neighbor, but… I won’t apologize for being female. I won’t apologize for being black or African. I won’t apologize for being divorced. I won’t apologize for being a single mom. I won’t apologize for being poor. I won’t apologize for being… Read More I Won’t Apologize…
When A Woman is Loud
When a woman is loud, it’s usually because she’s tired of being silenced and tired of being told to be quiet. When a woman is loud, it’s because she’s contributing something to the life force of the world and it’s taking all she’s got to bring it forth. Women often have to bring forth in… Read More When A Woman is Loud
Thoughts on Genesis 2:24
Sharing thoughts here, that I don’t want to lose…Today, I’m pondering the word ‘one’ in “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh” (Gen. 2:24), and here’s what I’m thinking… that the word ‘one’ can be expanded to mean ‘equal?’ Here’s why…… Read More Thoughts on Genesis 2:24
Close Enough To Heal
The most powerful feature of our redemption is that in order to redeem humanity, God, scandalously became human! In other words, He entered humanity in such a way that he experienced everything human, except sin. As such, he became qualified to speak for our ‘human’ issues, to advocate for them and to suffer in our… Read More Close Enough To Heal
Redefining Jezebel
Can women be mean? You bet they can, after all they are humans too and experience the full range of human emotions. Yet, the general aversive reaction to a woman who expresses emotions such as hate, jealousy, anger, strong disagreement, etc., is worse than her male counterparts receive. Emotions, actions and attitudes that are accepted,… Read More Redefining Jezebel
What’s Wrong With One-Sided Submission?
As good daughters and good Christians, we believed, imbibed and lived the teaching that women were always, only supposed to submit to men, no matter what. It was what God wanted and it was what our nurturing communities affirmed and since we wanted to be pleasing to both God and our nurturing communities, we absorbed… Read More What’s Wrong With One-Sided Submission?
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