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This op-ed by Beth Allison Barr stopped me in my tracks as I started reading.
"The deliberations of the elder board were short, too. My husband was to be fired as youth pastor," writes Dr. Barr, a history professor at Baylor University in Texas.
She and her husband had reached "the point at which my husband and I were willing to risk our ministry by challenging pastoral authority, especially over the unequal treatment of women in our church."
I was trying to review email and tweets efficiently before going to bed, but I had to stop and cry.
Dr. Barr is on a campaign to get evangelical churches back on track with what the Bible really says about women.
Other Southern Baptist women are also reconsidering the "women obey your husbands" and "women may not preach" theology. Here's an Associated Press report.
For example, the well-known Bible study media figure Beth Moore recently left the Southern Baptist Church over its relegation of women to second-class status. Because she is a popular Bible teacher, her exit in March is still making a lot of waves.
Many churches have book clubs, and women especially are reading and changing their minds on these once-standard maxims of church teaching: "Women must submit to their husbands" and "Women must not preach."
Start using this hashtag in your social media posts and tweets: #endchristianpatriarchy
You can get the sticker by pre-ordering Dr. Barr's forth-coming book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth.
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