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“They brought to the Pharisees…”

Naming sexism as sexism is not a failure to engage diverse views.

“They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.” John 9:13

“But what if we are vernacular? What happens when we discover the possibilities of what our bodies mean—when we discover a community of people who interpret our bodies in new ways, who see the image of God in new ways?” Brian Bantum

The election of Donald Trump was a nasty, shocking surprise for me in one particular way—I realized that sexism was a negotiable value in American culture. We were, as Americans, on the fence about the equality of women, and if other interests trumped this value, then so be it.