Graham Hill – 15 Habits and Practices to Amplify the Voices of Women and Honor Their Gifts

1. Get real about empowering female leaders
2. Enable women to sit at the table
3. Help women see women at the table
4. Transform male-dominated cultures
5. Model and esteem real professional and personal partnerships
6. Build cultures where women and men can equally succeed
7. Stop talking and start listening
8. Honor all women
9. Examine your beliefs and practices
10. Embrace reciprocal mentoring
11. Get proactive about women speakers
12. Ask what you’re willing to give up (and gain)
13. Profile female Christian leaders
14. Pray with women
15. Make honoring women and girls a lifestyle and an institutional value.

Graham Joseph Hill – Holding Half the Sky. A Biblical Case for Women Leading and Teaching in the Church (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020)

(From Scot McKnight – ‘Practicing Biblical Equality in the Church. Graham Hill gives fifteen practices for greater equality in the church‘)

Women should not teach men what? 1 Timothy 2 in context – Reenacting the Way

Source: Women should not teach men what? 1 Timothy 2 in context – Reenacting the Way

Here is some solid biblical teaching on a topic that continues to divide evangelicalism, mostly because of ignorance, patriarchy and ‘holy’ misogyny.

How Patriarchy Silences Women (Rachel Elizabeth Asproth)

Source: How Patriarchy Silences Women (Rachel Elizabeth Asproth)

Scot McKnight shares today this post on patriarchy by Rachel Elizabeth Asproth. Here is a summary:
1. Patriarchal History Questions the Importance of Women’s Existence
2. Patriarchal History Minimizes Women’s Contributions
3. Patriarchal History Pigeon-Holes Women
4. Patriarchal History Is Hyper-Focused on Female Sexuality

Southern Baptists Get Into Exorcising Cultural Demons – No, Not Their Own

Russell Moore, the ‘ethics’ champion of the Southern Baptists has discovered a new charismatic (!?!) dimension of his fundamentalist faith: exorcism.

In a recent presentation made at a recent national gathering of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, said that gender is “an issue of spiritual warfare.” He also suggested in this peach that the non-believing world is “a patriarchy of the most pagan kind.” (!!!)

We should, I guess, feel relieved. It is not SBC that is promoting misogyny. It is pagans. And Moore is going to exorcise them. We are safe now! Bot not from SBC, and their fundamentalist ‘hawks’, unfortunately.

See HERE a commentary on Moore’s statements, from Bob Allen, from ABPNews.

Rachel Held Evans – Patriarchy and Abusive Churches

Patriarchy and Abusive Churches.

Rachel Held Evans writes again on the topic of patriarchalism and its role in abuse on women in churches.

Here are a few quotes:

Survivors have spoken out about pervasive abuse or sexual misconduct situations with Sovereign Grace Ministries, Vision Forum, Jesus People USA, the Bill Gothard Ministry, Bob Jones University, Patrick Henry College, Pensacola Christian College, and several missions organizations. 

101 Christian Women Speakers

101 Christian Women Speakers.

Rachel Held Evans is horrified by the misogyny and patriarchalism that dominates the American evangelical culture and she would like o see more of the gifted Christian women on the platforms of Christians conferences in America.

However, because she’s had enough with the question who are these women, she has decided to make the list, so that the evangelical chauvinists have no excuse.

I was happy to find some of my favourites on this list, and some new names that I should pay more attention to.

Thanks, Rachel

Rachel Held Evans | Teammates…

Rachel Held Evans | Teammates…..

Me:  “This person says the men in my life need to do a better job of exercising their God-ordained authority to ‘silence’ me.”

Dan: “You tell him that this man’s doing everything in his power to make sure your voice is heard.”

Amen!

 

Richard Rohr on Patriarchy

We must be honest and admit that there are only two remaining large systems in the world that are totally patriarchal in their style and in their leadership: Communist states and the Roman Catholic Church. Ours never looked quite as bad since we at least used the language of Jesus, the symbols of communion, humility, and service, and we men even dress in rather feminine robes. The Communist states make no display of humility themselves or respect for the feminine side of anything. But the real bottom lines in the Roman Church are becoming more and more apparent to thinking and spiritual people in the last decade or so. Despite the very clear reforms of the II Vatican Council in the 1960’s , the Roman patriarchy, a closed system that allows no prophetic critique, and their branch appointed officers (bishops) are step by step rolling back both the spirit and the letter of the Vatican II reforms–while pretending and saying they are not. (Remember, if you can reject this Council, then you have the basis for rejecting the other 20 Councils of the Church too! The Pope and bishops had better be very careful!)