Women Fighting on the Front Lines
Australia is seriously considering changing the rules for front-line combat. Instead of making that decision based on sex, they’ll be making that decision based on qualifications. This change ought to pass, and probably will.
Keeping women from the front lines is one of the last bastions of chivalry. It’s one more practice that pretends to value [...]
Christianity and Feminism, Part 3
Women can’t be priests because women weren’t disciples. Right?
To this, New Feminist could reply by arguing that there were women who acted as disciples, blah blah blah. There are some good arguments to be made there, in re: Priscilla and Junia and so on, but let’s skip it and cut to the chase: this whole [...]
Christianity and Feminism, Part 2
Let’s re-state the stakes: Christianity is the West a powerful force. It is often a force antithetical to full equality of women with men. Lamenting that is useless; trying to ignore, change, or breed contempt for Christianity is also useless and often counter-productive. Feminists, whatever their beliefs, should hunker down and pay attention, not to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Christianity and Feminism (Part 1)
New Feminist kicks off its series on Christianity and feminism by reminding its readers (all two of them – hello, whoever you are!) that the ordination of women is biblical.
Not only biblical – sanctioned by Paul.
“I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,” he writes. The [...]
