Tag Archives: women having authority over men
The voice and the scriptures
They tell you that scriptures say that a woman must be silent, a woman can’t be a deacon because she can’t have one wife, and she can’t have authority over a man. Pastor, what you are teaching is crazy! People who do not speak up perpetuate this trivilization of the scriptures. Continue reading
Banned – by 1 Timothy 2:12 NIV
1 Timothy 2:12 has been used to harm women in the church more than any other scripture. It is a scripture that a church uses when it decides what a woman can’t do. Every church has its own definition of what a woman can’t do, and they are not the same. Continue reading
Editing to make it right
Hillary Clinton was edited out of the picture. Would certain church leaders do the same? Continue reading
Male Headship – Does God know about it?
God did NOT honor Male Headship in the way the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood and the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 describe it. Continue reading
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