Women in Ministry

I believe that the practice of religion is the worst thing to happen to the message of God's reconciling love for humanity!

Under the influence of religious practice, wars have been waged, slaughters and genocides carried out, and savage acts of repression and discrimination institutionalized.

Those practices weren't limited to some dark age of history...each of these practices are currently going on in our world today.

While we recognize some of them from news accounts of other places around the world - we tend to ignore or explain away any role or practice we allow locally.

Among the great insults to the message of God's reconciling love for humanity is the continued tolerance of a sociologically maladjusted misanthropic repressive discrimination against women, merely because they are female.

Just because the largest Christian denominations (from Catholic to Southern Baptist) institutionally discriminate against women doesn't make it right, or even theologically defensible!

Be careful in your pursuit of Christianity making sure to establish your practices based upon a wide body of scripture, not just a couple of selected verses that have been the touchstones for ego-centric and psychologically impaired male clerics.

God has marvelously anointed women for strong leadership roles down through Biblical history and continues to do so today.

We would have, and have had, far fewer wars and far more practice of great humanitarianism if we had more women in high roles of leadership in governments and in religious hierarchies.

God, give us more women such as Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, daughters of Philip, Anna, Tabitha (Dorcas), Phoebe, Priscilla, Euodias, and Syntyche. (scripture references)

These are a few of the women mentioned in a rather large body of scripture giving evidence of many women recognized as having served the church and/or the people of Israel in ministry leadership roles. There isn’t a defense presented in these passages of scripture, just a matter of record, and in some instances, introduction.

It is time for us to be more concerned with Biblical literacy and less concerned with culturally driven prohibitions. 

Let's expand our view of women in leadership to our nation...if we must be in war, let's have a 'Deborah' leading us.

Come on ladies, rise to this occasion! If God be for you, only fools will be against you.