If your message to women who teach the Bible is “Go home”
And your message to women whose lives your emphasis on submission ruined is “Forget it”
I’m not interested in anything you have to say about Jesus
Because none of this reflects the way Jesus treated women.
Do you know why I don’t get too worked up about the surrounding culture being godless? Because every book of the New Testament has taught me to expect it.
What gets me worked up is when the church—who should know better—forgets what she’s called to be.
For those of you who want to attack Dr. King's theology:
What do You think about the racist Southern seminaries with their 'great theology,' that wouldn't let him in because he was Black? Is racism a sin and hersey? And what about man-steaking slaveholding theologians?
Two years ago, I was fired from a job I loved after months of painful revelations that the church I loved was not the church I thought it was.
I wouldn’t wish those months on my worst enemy, but I did observe Advent with my whole heart that year, desperate for Christ’s return.
“To all of you. Don’t be quick to hammer that nail into the coffin of something you loved but feared was dead. God specializes in resurrection.”
What a word, @BethMooreLPM
Here’s the thing.
My generation spent our whole lives being told character matters, especially in leaders.
And then. Suddenly. It didn’t.
So. There is no avenue, to me, of trusting the people who disingenuously told us to believe in truth & then demanded we abandon it bc tactics.
🧵🪡
Marilyn Monroe was a real person.
Created in the image of God, just like you and I.
She was beautiful, talented, and wanted nothing more in life than to be a mother.
I do not believe she ever had an abortion, despite what Netflix tells you.
However.
“Purity culture” or a system that dictates how a girl or a woman wears or behaves in an attempt to control their sexuality— is not a system of morality, it’s a system used to justify violence against women. 🧵
Them: Well since you’re a Democrat now.
Me: I just don’t think being a Republican is the same as being a Christian anymore and refuse to let people say it is while doing explicitly unchristian things. That’s not the same as being a Democrat.
The # of times I’ve had this convo.