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@sandraglahn
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If you don’t know much about the legacy of RBG, here’s a primer. The Supremes did not get their first woman til I had been married nearly two years. This is the world in which I developed as a woman:
I just watched a religious-freedom training session for journalists led by a Christian woman whose family fled the Iranian revolution when she was a child. When asked what she considers the number-one threat to religious freedom in the USA, she said this: Christian nationalism.
“Colorado pastor Bob Bender asked from the floor… ‘What does it say when we’re slow on the take on sexual abuse of women but quick on the draw to disqualify them from non-lead pastor roles?’”
#SBC
No, Nathan, don’t you dare tell King David he was wrong to violate Bathsheba. That would be liberal. We don’t need a Sunday school teacher in office. This king has already been so criticized. Remember the options? Saul was worse.
I spoke in chapel last week. One of my male students who lives a far drive was there. When I made a point to thank him for showing up, he said, “I figured there was probably some guy who refused to attend because you were speaking, so I wanted to be sure to fill his seat.” ❤️
Madeleine L'Engle: We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe…but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
Hulu’s “God Forbid” is sickening. Falwell. Greed. Adultery. Christian nationalism. Media. Intimidation. Lies. Abuse of power. All well documented. The problem is not with the documentary….
The US is not New Jerusalem. Plus that city’s wall has 12 gates (Rev 21:12) and they are never shut. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.” (vv 25-26). 🙌🎶🎉💃🥂🙏❤️
That’s my mama holding my hand. She has been a gift to the world for 92 years. A righteous woman. Antiochian Orthodox. Today she met her reward. Rest In Peace, beloved mother and sister and child of God.
If you endorse a book, it is your responsibility actually to know what it says and vet it for your readers. To do otherwise is irresponsible. Esp if you have the title of shepherd of the sheep. That is kind of the point of being a shepherd.
“You interpret the Bible differently than I do. So you must not believe in inerrancy.” One way toward a more unified church is recognizing the lie in this statement.
Recently I got notified I’ll receive grant $ to create a free photo library of women in public ministry in the visual record of the early church. Esp in Rome & Ravenna—like this depiction of Praxedes (l., commended by Paul) and Pudensiana (r., by Peter) in Rome's mosaics. 🙌🙌
From final blog post by
#RHE
: (Ash Wednesday):
‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.’
Death is a part of life.
My prayer for you this season is that you make time to celebrate that reality, and to grieve that reality, and that you will know you are not alone.
Rick Warren: It’s no accident that the same voices that said “We can’t protect women from abuse, because of the autonomy of the local church” are the same voices saying, “We can prevent them from being called pastors in the autonomy of the local church.”
Some believe a Deborah arises only when good men can’t be found. I disagree. But I also think if good men take a weak or no stand against all forms of domestic abuse, they should expect to see many Deborahs arise.
This grant was for $3000. 👇Today I got notified that in partnership with colleagues from Northern and Wheaton, we have received another grant to build on this work. Awarded ~$50K!
Recently I got notified I’ll receive grant $ to create a free photo library of women in public ministry in the visual record of the early church. Esp in Rome & Ravenna—like this depiction of Praxedes (l., commended by Paul) and Pudensiana (r., by Peter) in Rome's mosaics. 🙌🙌
Maasai and Pokot Christians taught me that shepherding is one of the lowest jobs, given to a girl unless there are no daughters, in which case care for smelly critters falls to the youngest son (like David). I need to change my nativity-scene art to add children. Girls.
I have noticed a lot of Xian leaders on social media pairing wifely submission with male leadership. But in Eph 5, the counterpart to “submit” is not leadership but “agape love.” “Head” in Paul’s analogy is paired with “body,” not “submit.”
#metaphorofonenessnotpower
Abortion is evil. Shooting children is evil. Putting them in cages is evil. Having a separate justice standard for brown bodies is evil. People are made in God’s image, so it is wrong to murder or torture them or treat them unjustly.
Jesus was the descendant of sexually exploited women, narrowly survived a child homicide, and grew up to be the world’s most prominent defender of children. Jesus reserved his harshest words for those who abused or neglected children... —Wipf & Stock
@bethallisonbarr
So they will not disfellowship a church for abiding a pedophile senior pastor because church autonomy, but when it comes to a woman worship pastor or a pastor to women, they override autonomy because disunity?
Serious question: if all 3 branches of govt were dominated by the right, why were pro-life laws and policies not overwhelmingly passed? Would doing so ultimately lose them political power— if the right no longer had that issue as a rallying cry? Are pro-lifers being played?
One in six American women has been raped or faced an attempted rape. But less than 0.5% of perpetrators will go to jail. The law continues to victim blame and fails to protect women. If this is not evidence of systemic sexism, I don’t know what is.
Would you please pray for one of my female students who needs about $1800 to pay a seminary tuition bill to proceed with a summer class? She’s working her tail off in two jobs and excelling at her studies. I’d love for her to know of your support.
Watched “Shiny Happy People” on Amazon Prime. An important, sobering historical look at white (I never saw ppl of color at the 3+ conferences I attended) US evangelical history and links between absolute authority and abuse.
Let’s say it together: “I wholeheartedly, full stop, without a single reservation condemn white nationalism.” Period. The end. End of story. Amen and amen.
My mother-in-law is probably in her last hours. A life well lived and ready to meet her Maker. Her sons are on their way from Africa. Prayers for our family appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
I disagree emphatically. If the
#judge
is innocent, he must be exonerated. If guilty, not accuse his victim—but own his sin and beg forgiveness. Jesus cares for victim and victimizer. He does not say time heals all evil. Or that evil does not matter. Or boys will be boys.
1887 Harper’s Bazaar lithograph. “The women...” Gifted to me by my husband as a daily reminder of the identity of the primary witnesses of the birth, death, resurrection.
Boaz to Ruth: Take note of the field where the men are harvesting & follow with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. (Ruth 2:9)
Jesus to men re woman w/ alabaster jar: Leave her alone. She has done a beautiful thing to me. (Mark 4:16)
Francis Collins just recited The Sermon on the Mount as part of his
#Templeton
acceptance speech—after sharing his journey from atheism to faith in Jesus Christ. So powerful. Calling us to love.
Jesus redefined motherhood: “Who is my mother? The one who does the will of God.” Happy M-Day to everybody seeking to do love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control.
@MADDOG494
@Judgedrift
@ABC
So are u saying we have laws to prevent ppl from wrongly destroying guns, just no way to prevent them from wrongly destroying other humans?
Did u know? The Assemblies of God (AG) has ordained, on avg., more than 5 women/wk for the past 14 years. Total # of ordained women in the denom.: 10,383 (27%). Women have been preaching/teaching in the AG since it’s founding in 1914. —CT
@ElizabethOstli1
@jaysonyork
@ohrwurm_AT
Thank you.
God confronts both Ananias and Saphira (Acts 5:9); both Ahab and Jezebel (2 Kings 9:10); both Adam and Eve (Gen 3:13). But only David, not Bathsheba.
Dear suffragettes. I’m choosing to be grateful I just got a
#jury
summons as I remind myself that when my grandmother was born, women were denied that privilege.
I read about a church that is delaying Easter tIl this all blows over. But celebrating the “already” in the “not yet” is actually quite well suited to prisons and catacombs and quarantines.
Just finished
@BethMooreLPM
All My Knotted Up Life. Listened on audio as the author read it —which I highly recommend.
Brilliant. Wise. Raw. Witty. Honest. Riveting. Heartbreaking. Inspiring. Devastating. True.
Superb storytelling. Must have sucked to live it.
After
#NobodysMother
drops, folk will have a much harder time using 1 Timothy 2:8-15 against women. I don't want to ruin the storyline for you, but this historian was pretty captivated.
@sandraglahn
has the historical (and every other type of evidenciary) receipts.
@ivpacademic
@ndrew_lawrence
Interesting. Among the ppl in E Africa w/ whom we work, it usually means her husband is proud of her, her family gets to eat meat sometimes, her kids get to go to school, and they all have needed hygiene supplies. See Luke 8:3 and Prov 31:23, 28.
All the instructions in the Scriptures about tabernacle and temple suggest that place and beauty actually do matter. The stones of remembrance. Physicality. We are not Gnostics.
The Book of Job: Sometimes even faithful people lose everything, through no fault of their own. The righteous suffer. People can work hard and please God—and still have nothing materially.
#prosperitygospelisheresy
#Whitelies
Today I felt grateful to worship in a church that did not confuse raising voices to the God of all nations with celebrating American religious nationalism.
Our daughter is on the autism spectrum. Tho “Asperger’s” is no longer considered the PC label and ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) is considered correct, she prefers “Aspie” to a label with “disorder” in it. Can’t say I blame her.
People giving a pass on the choices of a hetero man on this third marriage and accused of sex w a porn star + sexual harassment by 19 women are saying a man in a monogamous gay marriage is a threat to morality because his example would normalize aberrant sexual ethics.
This morning I gathered with a group deeply divided by he said/she said, by class, by views of gender, by opinions about how to rid our land of abortion.... And together we set aside those differences to praise the one who paid our debt and raised our lives up from the dead. 🙌🙌
If someone makes a strong exegetical biblical case for something ppl have never heard and said ppl argue back with “I’ve never read that in my commentaries,” said ppl cannot then truthfully claim that they ground all their arguments only in scripture.
#bathsheba
@KelleyMMathews
@Josh_Bleeker
@ostrachan
Plus, “Act like men” here does not mean “Act less feminine.” The contrast is not man/woman but man/child. He means “grow up. Act like adults, not children.” See similar Pauline contrast in 1 Cor 13: “When I became a man, I put away childish things.”
New Zealand’s Parliament unanimously approved a bill that would give mothers & their partner 3 days of pd leave after suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth. It's one of the first countries in the world to provide this type of leave.
My nephew’s bone marrow transplant was canceled the third time because too much leukemia in his bones. This means the end of conventional treatment. Clinical trials. Plz pray for him and our family. 💔
@MargMowczko
Usurping the older women’s call to do so (Titus 2:4) & communicated using a visual in which all women have uniformly skinny waists and arms but “buxom” breasts. I’d think “parody” if I didn’t know better. Young women R leaving church faster than any demographic. Here’s a reason.
A male pastor (who lives 1,000 mi away) and I were talking about how a lot of online services have had all-male visuals. So he asked for a little help.
#RepresentationMatters
Reply from the pastor of a Reformed church in Danville VA. It would be nice if we could talk about the Bible while simultaneously demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit.