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Oct 6, 2023 · What this journey into some of the Bible’s most difficult stories reminded me more than anything was this: the Bible makes for uncomfortable reading. It doesn’t always provide neat answers or fit with the ideas we’d like to have of ourselves or of God. Sometimes you just have to sit and wrestle with that. But how you read the Bible matters.
Apr 15, 2021 · The Making of Biblical Womanhood, by Beth Allison Barr. White evangelical women are often taught that their calling is to be passive in the church, to be submissive to their husbands and to stay ...
Jul 25, 2021 · Barr argues, in “The Making of Biblical Womanhood,” that the meaning of these passages changes radically, however, when they are placed in their proper historical context. She says that Paul ...
Aug 10, 2018 · The allowance of denominations to discriminate against ordaining women and LGBT persons to clergy is based in an inerrant or timeless and literal interpretation of texts in the Bible.
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And that is always exemplified in moral and spiritual qualities rather than by social standing, wealth, or physical appearance. And that's setting the record straight. Far from denigrating women, the Bible promotes feminine freedom, dignity, and honor. Scripture paints for every culture the portrait of a truly beautiful woman.
Jul 25, 2022 · Gender-based violence (GBV) is a crime as old, if not older, than the Bible. Yet, it is also a crime that remains endemic today, with almost one in three women globally having ‘been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their life’, according to data produced by the World Health Organisation on behalf of the ...
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Woman is created as a “helper” for the man (Gen. 2:18), though this too is a notoriously difficult passage to translate and has been interpreted as “helpmeet” (KJV), “sustainer” [5] or sometimes “a helper against him.”. [6] The identity of man’s helper leads to gendered connotations in which woman exists not only in a position ...
