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About bwebaptistwomenforequality

Shirley Taylor writes with humor and common sense, challenging the church body to reclaim equality for Christian women.

How long is your leash?

A young mother took her family to the Houston Live Stock show where the family was showing a calf to be judged.  She had a young son who she took with her.  She put a leash on the little kid … Continue reading

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Part 3. Birthright – Are you ready to unleash your harness?

If you, too, are restless, and are ready to tear away the harness of male headship from your neck, now is the time to speak up! Continue reading

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Part 2. New Testament – New Birthright

A new birth: a new right as sons and daughters of God. That was our birthright. We were free! Christ set us free from religosity slavery. Continue reading

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Part 1. A Parable of the Birthright

This analogy has Jacob representing Christian men who pushed women aside even though men and women were both firstborn in the New Creation, and set to inherit the goods and possessions of the Father. Esau represents Christian women who now realize that they gave up their most valuable inheritance. Continue reading

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Christian Nationalism: Part 3. Setting the Record Straight

Religious and denominational leaders engaged in overly religious piety after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and this resulted in the formation of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and now Christian Nationalism. Continue reading

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Christian Nationalism: Part 2. Ushering in the modern day witch hunt

Some religious leaders thought they were right, some knew they were wrong, but all thought it was for the good of the Roman Catholic Church. Just as the Southern Baptist Convention and the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood thinks it is good for them. Continue reading

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Christian Nationalism: Part 1. Sleeping with the enemy

What do they want the United States government, and your local government, and international governments to do about the Devil coming into your home via your working wife? Do they want all women to quit working for pay? What laws will they support being made to bring this about? How does this affect your family? Perhaps this is the Devil you should be worried about. Continue reading

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How We Got to this Point

That is how women got to this point, and since fundamental Christians are the most influential groups, they are keeping us here. What fundamentalists have sown, we have reaped. Continue reading

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The Garden

Where do we go from here? Do we leave Mary and the other women beside an empty grave? Yes, we do. Not as Jesus did, but as pastors and preachers and other women have determined we should do. Continue reading

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Lent. Part 4. Destination, the Garden

No matter what shape the world is in, the writers of The Danvers Statement would never have chosen the woman at the well to be the instrument God used to win lost people to Christ. Continue reading

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