I know women preachers who are better speakers and more knowledgeable about the Bible than most of the COG ministers out there. How embarrassing for those COG minsters to have to deal with that! Imagine a woman smarter than Rod Meredith, Pack, Coulter, Weinland or Flurry! Well, on second thought, that is not hard to imgine at all!
What If Women Had a Voice at Nicea?
What if women had been given a voice at Nicea? What if the Apostle Junia had written an epistle that survived, even if only in references by ancient critics? What if the cult of Jesus had not won the economic and political turf war against the mystic gnostics? What if the Acts of Paul and Thecla had made the canon? What if we still believed Jesus really was a totally flesh-and-blood, sweaty, sexy man?Would women have not become second-class citizens of the Kingdom? Would we have quit making excuses for ignoring "male and female, created He them" and "in Christ there is no slave nor free, male or female"? Would women be respected in the Christian community as whole, complex people instead of wombs with legs?What if we had taken Jesus seriously when he honored the whore, the women disciples, the adulteress, the mother, the rich patroness, rather than only following his example as the destroyer of the temple?Who would we think God is? Who would we think we are?
