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24 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
My New Year's Resolution for 2022, BTW, is to not put up with theobros.

I've been handling college classrooms as well as evangelical youth groups (and their parents) for more than 20 years....1/2
Not to mention I'm a pastor's wife who has lived through the traumatic firing of my husband (and came out stronger), the crisis of a church secretary embezzling all our small church savings, and the crisis of covid on a small church.

Plus I'm a mom.

I can handle theobros.
(and I didn't even mention what it took to get my PhD and become a full professor, but you can go read @scott_m_coley for this--he explained it very well: faithphilosophyandpolitics.org/author/scoley4…)
And, wow, I forgot that I've been an academic dean since 2018. Really, y'all! I think I'm more than prepared.

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1 Dec
So much scholarly evidence exists showing that 'biblical womanhood' isn't biblical. @scotmcknight's #BlueParakeet is a must read--kind, careful, & mind-exploding--for showing how we have gotten the Bible wrong on so many issues, including women in ministry 1/2 Image
This is why I was so excited to have @scotmcknight
not only agree to read #MakingBiblicalWomanhood, but give it one of my favorite endorsements. Along w/ @laurambarringer, his #AChurchCalledTOV shows Christian patriarchy harms not only women but the entire culture of the church. Image
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21 Nov
I wrote #MakingBiblicalWomanhood to help the women who live every day in situations just like @JonathanLeeman described 👇 🧵
The women who are met with patronizing attitudes and gaslighting techniques when they try to get help from abusive husbands.

The women who are told that believing God calls women to lead and serve in the same ways as men is sinful and will lead them astray from gospel truth.
Y’all, these women are my audience. My heart breaks every day for them because I lived in their shoes for so so long. Because I know the Bible doesn’t teach what they are being taught,

The gospel is bigger than this. Jesus is better than this.
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17 Nov
I'm reading an article published @ASChurchHistory Journal from 2004. It is by Valerie A. Karras and is titled "Female Deacons in the Byzantine Church." It is a fantastic example of how much scholarship exists on women as leaders that evangelicals just don't know.

such as:
Valerie A. Karras, "Female Deacons in the Byaznatine Church," Church History 73:2 (June 2004), 272-316.

Ute E. Eisen, Women Officeholders in Early Christianity, trans. Linda Maloney (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 2000).

and
Roger Gryson, The Ministry of Women in the Early church, trans. Jean Laporte and Mary Louise Hall (Collegeville, Minn.: Ligurgical 1976).

Karen Jo Torjesen, When Women were Priests: Women's Leadership in the Early church and the Scandal of their Subordination," (Harper, 1993)
&
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15 Nov
The last two years for our church have been difficult….1/4
God showed up….2/4
As of this morning….3/4
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11 Aug
I try to not speak in anger. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to speak. I think it is time for me to speak out against that review. Because this matters. Because it encapsulates most of my points in #MakingBiblicalWomanhood.
Because it shows that men who believe women should not lead in church discredit women’s leadership in church history.

Because it shows that men who teach women are less than men treat women as less than men.

Because it shows how biblical womanhood hurts real women.
It’s time for the church to man up & act like Jesus.

Jesus treated women as fully human. Jesus listened to women. Jesus didn’t judge women by sexual status. Jesus told a woman she was of great faith—not when she stayed silent at home but when she called out to him in the street.
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22 Jul
I have three things to say.

1. I didn’t write #MakingBiblicalWomanhood for me. I wrote it to help women trapped in an ungodly system that is damaging the Gospel of Christ. I threatened an entrenched power structure, and they are trying to take me down….
2. I wrote over 4000 years of history in a tiny book. Yes it is an overview with windows into specific historical moments. Yes there is a lot more to say. Yes I didn’t explain all the nuances of Arianism. Others have done that. Go read them. I gave you hundreds of citations….
3. I told my story. I told it broadly because it involves real people. I didn’t tell the story for vengeance, I told what was needed to help you see the full implications of “biblical womanhood.” This isn’t just an abstract idea; it is a harmful system that hurts people….
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