by Hanna Mudge | Sep 17, 2020 | Opinion
It’s easy to pay lip service to equality, but putting beliefs into practice is another matter. Along with many friends, I have experience of church contexts where women are supposedly equal and valued, yet curiously invisible unless they’re fulfilling certain roles or...
by William E. Hull | Jan 24, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Nov. 7, 2003. Hull was university professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of publication. Boundary markers are important to fundamentalists because they need enemies to energize their cause. In...
by Naomi King Walker | Nov 1, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Feb. 28, 2011. At the time of publication, Walker was music/worship pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky. Hierarchical paradigms shape our thinking about the world in which we live. We tend to view...
by Carra Greer | Oct 25, 2019 | Opinion
Women are welcome?! My initial, gut-level reaction is “Ha!” Apparently, some misogynist made a comment mocking Beth Moore, which has sparked moderate Baptists and others to launch several campaigns supporting women clergy. One says, “Women aren’t going home. They are...
by Mitch Randall | Nov 22, 2017 | Opinion
I was one of the many Christians believing God created women for a subservient role to men. Growing up in fundamentalist Baptist churches, it was instilled in me for more than two decades that God created women to “help” men; women were to serve their...
