Showing posts with label gender roles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender roles. Show all posts
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: "In Reality, Evangelicals Did Not Cast Their Vote [for Trump] Despite Their Beliefs, but Because of Them"

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I recently read Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (NY: ...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Sarah Posner's Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump — Unholy Marriage of Alt- and Religious Right in the Trump Presidency

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I recently read Sarah Posner's new book Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (NY: Penguin Random House, ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Quote for Day: "Church's Radically Patriarchal Leadership Structure and Theology Are at the Root of Most Sex Abuse Cases in the Church"

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Jamie Manson writes, " No, Jean Vanier is not 'like all of us' ":
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Centering Religion on Possession or Lack of a Penis Seems to Have Some Significant Downsides

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Tina Beattie, "A 'frozen idea of the feminine,"   The Tablet, 20 Feb. 2020 I think this morning of three famous m...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Ladies, You'll Never Have to Use a Washing Machine Again When You Get to Heaven": I Report on a Funeral Sermon

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Maytag Ad 1959 "Ladies, just think! You'll never have to use a washing machine again when you get to heaven." Then t...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Southern Baptist and U.S. Catholic Leaders Meet in Same Week, Both Confronting Serious Sexual Abuse Problems: A "Gender Hurricane" Results

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It's a gender hurricane out there this week. Come Holy Spirit. https://t.co/ebDdAKIsEc — Natalia Imperatori (@nimperatori) June 11, 2...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

Southern Baptist Convention's New Smiley Face: What Really Lies Behind It, When We Get Beyond Media Spin?: "Wives, Submit to Your Husbands"

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Perhaps as a former  Southern Baptist, I should keep my mouth shut. In the view of the mainstream media, which love a both-sides-have...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

"In Every Case, 'Wives Submit to Your Husbands' Appears in the Same Context As 'Slaves Obey Your Masters'": A Twitter Conversation for You

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In every case, "wives submit to your husbands" appears in the same context as "slaves obey your masters." And yet I...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

SPLC on How Alt-Right Is Killing People: "Young, White, Middle Class, Heterosexual Males Commit Mass Murder at a Disproportionately High Rate"

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Southern Poverty Law Center published this valuable essay by Keegan Hankes and Alex Amend entitled "The Alt-Right Is Killing Peopl...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Two More Queer Catholics Fired, "Progressive" Evangelicals "Discern" Whether Queer Folks Should Be Treated Equally, CBF Discriminates Against Queer Employees: What's This All About?

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Mark Guevarra writes , "In early December 2017, a representative from the Archdiocese of Edmonton called me in for an invest...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Two More Resources re: Non-LGBTQ-Affirming Policy of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Shane Claiborne's Refusal, as a "Progressive Evangelical," to Affirm Queer Folks Unambiguously

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When a commitment to a doctrine overshadows the ability to see other people’s humanity, one has conceded their own humanity for ideology...

Trump White House and Rob Porter Story: "Nothing More Important Than a Powerful Man's Word"

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Huffington Post U.S. Top Headline, 10 Feb. 2018, 8 A.M. CST Amanda Terkel , "For Trump, There’s Nothing More Important Than A Po...
Friday, February 2, 2018

"Excluding Women from the Gospel — in Jesus' Name": Twitter Hosts a Necessary Conversation Many Churches Don't Intend to Have

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#T4G18 Excluding women from the Gospel - in Jesus’ name. pic.twitter.com/GIX8doKrPl — Kate WallaceNunneley (@KateWallace1313) February 1...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Cameron Altaras, "Mennonite Harvey Weinsteins, or #MeToo in the Mennonite World"

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I'm honored today to share with you another essay from the Mennonite world, one making powerful connections between the #MeToo mo...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Statement of Religious Right Leaders about Biology-Based Gender Roles as Key to Divine Revelation: "An Approach to God That Biblical Tradition Calls Idolatry"

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Because they are fighting for the divine supremacy of heterosexual males, and the belief that heterosexual males are uniquely made in Go...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Quote for Day: Marie Griffith on How Deeply Entwined Is U.S. (White) Christians' Fixation on Sex and Power with (White) American Nationalism

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At Religion News Service today , Jana Riess interviews Marie Griffith, author of the just-published Moral Combat: How Sex Divided Ame...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

"Love Does Not Permit Us to Plug Up Our Ears with Bible Verses": Donald Trump and White Christians' Patriarchal Worldview — Connecting Dots

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I see lots of dots connecting in these valuable pieces of commentary I've read in the past several days. I hope you might, too:
Saturday, August 19, 2017

White, Male, Heterosexual or Heterosexual Posturing — and Privileged to the Nth Degree: What Charlottesville Marchers Had in Common

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As I watch video clips of and read articles about the young white men who made it their business to run to Charlottesville and march in...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Trump and the Christian Fascists, and What Trump Election Says About Us

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compassion. is the longest emotion there is. — . (@nayyirahwaheed) July 23, 2017 Speaking-truth-to-power sorts of statements I've ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Doc's a Woman, My Inflatable Doll Is a Lesbian, and It's Never About Misogyny: "Doctor Who" Freakout and Trump-Era Politics

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'Doctor' has no gender in English. — Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 17, 2017 There's a common thread in these tid...