Today, across our country and across the world, women are going on strike. Following the historic women’s march on January 21, women today are raising their voices in protest by abstaining from any paid or unpaid work and avoiding participating in the economy through purchases (with the exception of small, female-owned businesses). On International Women’s
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Is Your Women’s Ministry Sexist?
Feminism has taken on many faces in the church over the last five years. Some of this has been massively beneficial to the church, as the concept has expanded, broadened, and served to bring more people into the conversation. On the other hand, some of the conversation has served only to further a dichotomy between
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To the Girl with the Make-Uped Face
To the Girl with the Make-Up Face, Okay. Even though my alarm will come bright and early and there’s editing to do tonight, my mind is stuck on you. Quite honestly, I can’t get you out of my head. You with black-lined eyes, pink cheeks, and glossy red lips. I know what you’re thinking in the brain
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Why We Love to Hate Women’s Ministry
Women’s ministry: two little words that evoke such emotive responses. Over the last several weeks I have been discussing women’s ministry with several of the women in our local body. There are studies we’re hoping to form, groups we’re hoping to assemble, and events we’d like to plan. As long as I have been a part
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Why Women Need Good Theology
Women get a lot of blog posts. Sometimes, I think there are too many blog posts devoted solely to women’s ministry topics. I have searched over the past several months to find blogs written by Christian women that are edifying and nourishing. What I came up with was, unfortunately, really disappointing. While I found thousands