womenbeingsilentin the church).As ascholar,genderissueshave beenacriticallensthrough whichIhavecometo viewreligion,leadership,andsociety.Thatis whyIhavearguedthattheBibleis nottheliteralWord of Godbutmustbe interpretedin away thatreflectsthecontextin which it waswrittenandin conversationwithourown...
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” That is no simile, but a literal law of life. There is a pernicious anaemia of thesoul, a starvation of thesoulas well as of the body. Humanity in our time suffers from chronic unde...
That we did – and it was sort of fun, feeling exceptionally spiritual at age 10, even though I had a haunting feeling that it was all fake. It turns out that several in leadership at that little church outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, including the founder, dumped their families for...