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By: Second Rate: A year on « my small corner

Second Rate: A year on « my small corner — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:32:30 +0000

[...] me and I’ve realised that that is regardless of which side of ‘the debate’ (or kerfuffle!) they [...]

By: Potter Rach

Potter Rach — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:55:47 +0000

What a beautifully articulated blog! What you said about not confusing the church’s treatment of you with God’s view of you, resonates deeply with me. It still baffles me that in SOME of our churches, sexism, is totally acceptable – it is preached, accepted and goes unchallenged by an unconcerned ALL male leadership. I’m not even talking about issues like women in ministry but rather church rules such as ‘No women are allowed to be part of the welcoming group to greet people as they enter church’ I wish I was joking. I’m not. I feel like yelling from my pew ‘What is this saying to our young girls, our female teenagers struggling with poor self-worth, women searching for identity!’…………………………………………………….Maybe, I should start yelling.

By: wylie

wylie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:16:29 +0000

great to hear your thoughts!

By: Second Rate: Two things to remember… « my small corner

Second Rate: Two things to remember… « my small corner — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:29:37 +0000

[...] nearly walked away from a conversation in church this morning about this ‘kerfuffle’, because my feelings around the debate are still red raw and more often than not, tears spring [...]

By: weeirishbreakfast

weeirishbreakfast — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:21:08 +0000

heya, been on a journey bouncing round blogs and I’m going to of to think a bit about this women in ministry thing…which is probably a good idea as my wife is applying for the ministry…merci beuacoup

By: qmonkey

qmonkey — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:07:21 +0000

be great if you could go more into how jesus’ treatment of women was liberating. Would it not have been massive if he had chosen women apostles, or if god had chosen femail gospel writers. Given that he didn’t (we assume deliberatly)… what does this mean? Or even if he told St Paul to tell the ephesions to make sure they get the women involved in the teaching a bit more…. and… it may be a 2000 year old document… but we’re always being told its as relevant today as it ever was – i worry about ‘the buttet bible’ (as i may have said before)

By: it sounds like a whisper at jaybercrow

it sounds like a whisper at jaybercrow — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:47:24 +0000

[...] small contribution to the revolutionary movement begun by smallcorner and lilytodd and espero, continued by zoomtard, and immortalised in film by vox. With apologies to vox for extended use of [...]

By: soapbox

soapbox — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:32:01 +0000

welcome to the blogsphere and what an entry. Sitting at the willowcreek leadership conference watching bill interview Carly Fiorini – former CEO of Hewlett-Packard made me wonder about some of this. Where is there room in the church for the female high fliers – for highly talented female leaders and teachers? Surely teaching sunday school is almost an insult to women who would do a far better job than some of the men currently in those positions? Surely its not enough to talk about how Jesus’ treatment of women was liberating without looking at what that means today? a few more questions to add to the growing pile…

By: Modern Life: Blogging Peril « my small corner

Modern Life: Blogging Peril « my small corner — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:20:55 +0000

[...] Being somewhat impartial to a slice of healthy optimism with lashings of heart-on-your-sleeve, her innocent paddling became a full-on skinny-dipping adventure (metaphorically speaking, of course) as she plunged into 365ing and then the straw that broke the camel’s back… [...]

By: meinmysmallcorner

meinmysmallcorner — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:00:51 +0000

I popped into the university Chaplaincy yesterday to “kill ten minutes”; expecting a quick friendly chat about nothing in particular, but suddenly I’m fighting back tears because it turns out that this particular Chaplain is discussing the issue in his church. He’s still not sure what the Bible says, but at least he’s making the effort to find out. Hope.