I’m joining the linkup for #WholeMama, where the theme this week is Empower/Superpower. I have no words on that topic at the moment, but I do have Photoshop superpowers! I’ve been listening to Joy Williams’ Venus album nonstop since it was released on NPR yesterday, and that whole album is the definition of female empowerment….
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A Wounded, Secret Jesus Feminist
“The cracks were ricocheting and multiplying across my heart now, and when I turned to the Church for answers, I did not feel my questions were welcome.” – Jesus Feminist How do you not stay bitter? How do you let go of the anger, the hurts, the soul-deep wounds Christians have inflicted? Lean into the…
True Womanhood – Tension, Cracks, and a Concrete Faith
“Gender displays God…..Who we are and how we relate as women and men is an object lesson.” “Being created for someone indicates that God created the female to be a highly relational creature. Her identity isn’t based on work nearly as much as on how well she connects in her relationships….We need to keep…
True Womanhood – Cookies and Chains
Growing up, my grandma always kept the cookie jar stocked. Oftentimes, it was with molasses cookies. Which are disgusting. But, apparently, that’s not a common reaction. “What? How can you not like her molasses cookies? They’re the best!” I’ve noticed a similar attitude coming from this study and the idea of true womanhood. We’re…
True Womanhood – Get Abused, Win A Crown!
TRIGGER WARNING!!! ABUSE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, and everything ANTI-GOD!!! Seriously. FOR THE LOVE!!!!!!! Oh, also, this post is pretty long. Fair warning. I couldn’t not put any of these quotes in. Because holy hell. You need to read this. “The gospel informed woman, the younger women are to love their husbands. They are to…
True Womanhood – Oppressing Women since Creation
3 years ago, I saw Andy Crouch, Skye Jethani, and Bethany Hoang, among others, talk in Chicago. It was part of the Lausanne Movement, an important part of evangelicalism, and justice was on the docket. I listened to a very pregnant Hoang talk about justice and the church and her work with IJM. Lately,…
True Womanhood – Compassionless Christianity
{I apologize for the length of this, the length of the quotes. But I want people to know what’s in this study, and how pervasive the uncompassionate attitude is. I think if people are going to attend this study, or churches are going to promote it, they should know what they are promoting, because…
True Womanhood – An Offensive Gospel
In response to Titus 2:3-5 (all quotes taken from this session, mostly from 27:00-33:30, and apologies for the length): “Those words are really, really counter-cultural. They are radical! They are not politically correct. But can I just remind us that that is God’s way? And that God says these things are good…these are not…
True Womanhood – June Cleaver as Jesus
“The fundamental premise of feminism is that women need and can trust no other authority than our own personal truth.” Creating a culture of idolatry was probably not anyone’s goal, but I think in the desire to make their point, the True Woman movement has done so. They tell us the idol of June Cleaver…
True Womanhood – Affirming Female Ordination?
One of the things I dislike most about fundamentalism is that it automatically pits people against each other. I hate that the premise of this study is, if you don’t agree, you don’t have the truth, and your faith in Jesus is questioned. “…knowing those truths, and they are truths, about biblical womanhood, how…