A frequent commenter here on the blog who goes by the name Credis Dervish posted the following four lines across two comments yesterday in response to my Submit: The New S-Word post. Credis is a self-described anti-theist, a piece of information I share only to provide a bit of context for the comment. She writes: don’t…

So, I seem to have really stepped in it with my “What Does it Mean to be a Christian Woman” post on Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog earlier this week. It appears that my initial experience with the Bible and the “women submit to your husbands” scripture raised some questions that had been both beaten…

This is a guest posts from Dr. Suzan Johnson-Cook, Author, Speaker, Senior Pastor at the Bronx Christian Fellowship Church in New York and Founder of Wall Street Wednesdays, a mid-week service that has been held for more than a decade in the heart of the New York’s Financial district More recently she initiated a mid-ween service in Washington D.C.,…

Scot asked me to expand upon an email conversation we had last week regarding what it was like for me to approach the multitude of teachings regarding Christian womanhood for the first time as an adult convert to the faith. You can check it out here.  I am curious to see how women in and outside…

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