@baptizingfeminism
A film about relentless Christian feminist movements in U.S. history & today, led by those who champion the age-old convictions that the Bible calls for the equality of women and men – despite facing fierce backlash. https://linktr.ee/baptizingfeminism
The highly strategic marketing of biblical patriarchy and complementarianism through the decades. Many GenXrs grew up not knowing anything different. Hopefully they'll hear more from theologians & scholars pushing back w/differing & sound theologies.
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Women’s submission "theologies" are imbedded in such networks. One family vote, no fault divorce, shun women in military...Found under-radar gender role theologies are taught in military related organizations Bible studies. @sarahposner.bsky.social @julieingersoll.bsky.social
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Yes, women were named "Ezers" just as God was many times in the #Bible. But the patriarchal branch loves the English translation of women in Gen as "helper"-tiny little helper, subservient helper.🙄
Still can't get over these youngster, juvenile complementarians on gender roles and wifey submission. This is a version of the Piper/Grudem script after it traveled through decades. Sigh.
Interesting POV!
Right?! Ugh!
So true, so much ignorance, anti-intellectualism, misinformation multiplied on these issues, too.
"The world still doesn’t value women the way it should. But still, we are here, and our courage is not dependent on whether the government or society or the church says we have a voice."
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The marketing of anti- Christian feminist scripts are most often deeply ahistorical & narrow minded. Like the arguments in a new anti-Christian feminist book by Carrie Gress that's gotten much press..hope more historians who oppose her views will offer rebuttals! juicyecumenism.com/2026/02/06/a...
1920s poster women put in their windows. Yet, due to state laws, for decades many women of color couldn't vote. We can't go backward. Take a stand for women's rights & for the heroines who led the way. Biblical patriarchy networks today are at work toward turning back the clock.
She is lovely, looking forward to the book!
👏 "Braving the Truth: Essential Essays for Reckoning With and Reimagining Faith", treasured essays by @rachelheldevans edited by @sarahbessey.bsky.social Both helped lead a robust Christian feminist revival after a 1980s backlash against evangelical feminists! rachelheldevans.com/braving-the-...
Vast evangelical networks claim this Bible verse exempt women from preaching & leading in the church. For the many who say, "it's biblical",...."from Genesis to Revelation, women were anything but silent!"- Mimi Haddad, President of Christians for Biblical Equality
How about some of women theologians and scholars?
Photojournalism at its best... I've been corresponding w/this 91-yr-old photo journalist about securing rights to photos of Marabel Morgan needed for our film. He's still at work w/exhibits, writing books, etc. Love this series photos of turbulent America decades back! www.jplaffont.com/exhibitions/
Reflecting on President Carter's 2018 speech at Liberty Uni at 25:00 -- that one of the largest global challenges is the abuse & subjugation of women & girls. Right before that he said he thought it was that a handful held the world's wealth. Hand in hand they go.
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
Yes,.yes..far too often they go hand in hand.
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Bet Trump’s (concerning) NBC interview pre-Superbowl passed by many:
TL: What’s one thing you can do, really, to help Americans find common ground?
DT: "...we’re working on — the Save America Act, which is gonna secure up our voting. I think people would like to do it."
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Powerful & gut wrenching 🔎 🇺🇲 ✝️
"I just walked out of a movie called “The Testament of Ann Lee.” Lee was the founder of the American Shakers,...The Shakers were known for their ecstatic worship (hence the name), their egalitarianism and pacifism,..." @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social tinyurl.com/53d6yudb
⚠️"Texas A&M University’s move last week to close its women’s and gender studies program is highlighting the longstanding vulnerabilities of a field that grew out of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and ’70s and raising questions about its future." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
& patriarchy 👉"I believe the crisis in the US church has almost nothing to do w/being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do w/giving up on the faith & settling for a common, generic US identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, & part affluence." Walter Bruggemann
It's enough to compare the way Jesus related to women w/male led church history & mainstream evangelical networks now, that claim women are "ontologically inferior". This wasn’t due to a theological predisposition but rather "the writings of Plato and Aristotle dominated..." tinyurl.com/9nb5xta9
In light of patriarchal Christians who claim to be protectors of women & children...I’ve been shocked by videos of extreme roughness & violence toward women during 🧊 raids who didn't seem a threat. My Christian neighbor says they deserve it. Do they? @@rickpidcock
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"If his denomination is new to you, @julieingersoll.bsky.social has you covered. Listen to find out more about how this movement wants our country to be governed by biblical law...their religion should dictate every facet of life and society, their extreme patriarchy,..." bsky.app/profile/sara...
“People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.”
Theologian N.T. Wright
Vast networks of evangelicals believe God bars women from teaching men scripture, but this article clears that up with lens on Marcella who taught Jerome -- and never knew Henrietta Mears taught Billy Graham & others scripture.👇
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"The Gospels are intended to help us become like Jesus. That means...racism has to go. Sexism has to go. Classism has to go. Ableism has to go. Xenophobia has to go. One by one, these demons make their exits, leaving you alone with Jesus." @bobbygilles.bsky.social
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