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About bwebaptistwomenforequality

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

The lights are on in the staging area

As you pass through, remember the staging area. There are people out here working to bring you light.
Return back into the darkness, and help those neighbors who need the light. Add your talents and strengths to the workers who are working throughout the day and night so that others might see.

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We know our places

We know our places. But some of us are tired of those places. Some of us are telling our leaders that they are wrong. Some of us are holding them accountable for their segregationist attitude.

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Anne Rice – how do we fix Christianity

That is what happened with the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood. They thought that if they just got the women back under control, families would automatically return to what they considered the ideal.

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Headship or Partnership?

Respect is a very important component of love. A marriage of shared leadership and responsibilities has a much better chance of succeeding happily than the old “King of the household” attitude. Continue reading

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Women-the reason we can’t win the war in Afghanistan

We can’t win the war in Afghanistan because they really believe women are inferior, made that way by God. Among other ways, the Taliban manifests its religious beliefs in the subjugation of women. Both women and men believe that and we can’t change that belief. I am Southern Baptist, and that belief is as prevalent in churches in my home town as it is in Afghanistan.

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Can one person make a difference?

People who listen, who respond, and who take up the cause make the difference. That is why it is important for us to take action. This is your chance to make a difference. Individual people walking together in the same direction makes a crowd.

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Are our church leaders an abusive spouse?

Unless someone HOLDS THEM ACCOUNTABLE. They are likely to become more abusive.

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Silence demands a tent

Chelsea was not even an Equal, but. She just plain wasn’t equal. Continue reading

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Whose Rights

We are 21st century Christians. We need to get out of Bible world. We live in the real world of today. Men and women both suffer at the hands of others. As Christians we should be trying to better the world we live in now, and the world our children will be born in to, instead of parking ourselves 2000 years in the past.

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Drowned in the River of Male Headship

Will you be the one who throws a girl child into the river of male headship? Or will you be the one who rescues girls from a certain death.

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