Marc Schelske
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"Christian leaders today who claim that feminism and the movement toward autonomy for women is evidence of the dangerous encroachment of secular culture into the church have it precisely backward. Jesus’ message brought freedom...."
02:34 PM - Sep 03, 2023
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Marc Schelske
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"...The early church and many historic Christian communities knew this applied to women. What crept into the church was cultural patriarchy! It happened over and over and is a battle that’s raging again today."
02:34 PM - Sep 03, 2023
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Marc Schelske
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New blog post, responding to Beth Allison Barr's great book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How Subjugation of Woman Became Gospel Truth.

https://marcalanschelske.com/biblical-womanhood-is-christian-patriarchy/
02:34 PM - Sep 03, 2023
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Marc Schelske
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The heart of the ethic of Jesus is to love our neighbors as ourselves. This kind of love is incompatible with oppression.

#goodtheologysaveslives
02:37 PM - Sep 03, 2023
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Linda Eisenstein
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It is so clear from Biblical study that several of the Marys were also apostles despite not being named so by the men writing the gospels.
In response to Marc Schelske.
02:51 PM - Sep 03, 2023
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Marc Schelske
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In response to Linda Eisenstein.
One Mary for sure. And the text seems to me to say that Paul, in his letters, identified several woman by leadership title. Women were banned from being elders/presbuteros in the 360s CE, and you don’t bother banning something that’s not happening. 😃
03:08 PM - Sep 03, 2023
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