Will This Fall Be the Fall of the Patriarchy?
I don’t really expect the patriarchy to fall soon. But I do appreciate that—between the SBC and Barbie—it’s been getting some airtime.
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I don’t really expect the patriarchy to fall soon. But I do appreciate that—between the SBC and Barbie—it’s been getting some airtime.
Authority figures who are operating in healthy ways do not try to use shame to control people. We can learn to say “no” to religious shame.
As we consider non-authoritarian ways of reading the Bible—as well as non-authoritarian ways of speaking in church, and more liberating ways of engaging In a wonky world of churchy authority, what does it look like to “authorize” ourselves?
The American author Sue Monk Kidd's award-winning novel The Book of Longings has a sensational beginning, despite the simplicity of the phraseology: It starts: "I am Ana. I was the wife of Jesus bin J
Ue Monk Kidd has a way with words, evoking scenes and smells, drawing idiosyncratic characters who seem perfectly plausible. Her writing style reminds me a lot of Pat Conroy's--if she's not a native ...