Day 294 Jesus Feminist

October 28, 2015
Day 294

Sarah is a wordsmith. She pulled me in, immediately. Dale Cupo urged me to get this book. Erin Bale spoke of this woman and probably this book. Thank you, women! Pulling me quickly into a book is not easy to do, you really need hooks for me and many of them. I want to write like her but for now I will read her.  

I am going to include some quotes from this "must purchase" book. I mean it. You must purchase it. 

Quotes:  

"It might surprise antifeminist and anti-christians equally to know that feminism's roots are tangled up with the strong Christian women's commitments to the temperance movement, suffragist movements, and in America and England in particular, the abolitionist movements of the nineteenth century." p. 12

"I know some people like to poke holes in each other's arguments, pointing out inconsistencies and trading jabs of verses and scholars and church history like scrappy boxers." p. 15 

"Scholar David Joel Hamilton calls Jesus' words and actions toward women 'controversial, provocative, even revolutionary.' " p.17

"When Mary of Bethany sat at his feet, she was in the posture of a rabbinical pupil. Men and women rarely sat together, let alone for religious training, but there she was among them, at his feet. She was formally learning from him, the way the sons of Abraham had always sat - the daughters never had that spot." p. 19

"God has a global dream for his daughters and his sons, and it is bigger than our frozen-in-time arguments or cultural biases, bigger than socioeconomics (or the lack thereof), bigger than marital status, bigger than our place, bigger than all of us- bigger than any one of us." p. 26

"Lean into the pain. Stay there in the questions, in the doubts, in the wonderings and loneliness, the tension of living in the Now and the Not Yet of the Kingdom of God, your wounds and hurts and aches, until you are satisfied that Abba is there too." p.52

She quotes, Carolyn Custis James from "Half the Church," 

"The community of God's people should be the epicenter of human flourishing - where men and women are encouraged and supported in their efforts to develop and use the gifts God has given them whereever he stations them in the world... God never envisioned a world where his image bearers would do life in low gear or be encouraged to hold back, especially when suffering is rampant, people are lost, and there is so much kingdom work to do."