gender equality

Tribal Church

Empowered women in the religious right

What are progressive Christians doing in order to help women thrive in our society?

Jan 04, 2013 by Carol Howard Merritt

It would be easy for those of us who lean to the left of the political spectrum to dismiss the right by saying that they are waging a war on women, but that would deny the whole picture. What about Sarah Palin? What about Michelle Bachmann? And what about the other Grizzly Mamas who are being plucked, groomed and prepared as we speak?

Books

Taking Back God: American Women Rising up for Religious Equality

Leora Tanenbaum

Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality

May 05, 2009 reviewed by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
Growing up in a Mennonite conference in Pennsylvania that didn’t ordain women, I met plenty of folks like my mother: women and men who resisted the patriarchy of their church but who couldn’t bring themselves to leave.
News

In gender debate, Jesus is 'subordinate'

Evangelicals tinker with trinitarian doctrine
Feb 20, 2007
For centuries, the equality of the persons of the Holy Trinity has been standard Christian teaching. And for decades, evangelical Christians have argued over proper roles for men and women. Lately, however, some evangelicals who favor greater authority for males are tinkering with trinitarian doctrine.