Episode 11 - From Women

The church should be the safest place for women. The opposite is usually true.

The following stories are the experiences of women in the church. These voices represent the majority of the voices who make up church congregations.

 These are not an exhaustive sample of examples, neither is this the end of the conversation. Once upon a time, the church dignified women—it was the first to say they had value beyond just being property. The church subverted a culture’s view of women, recognizing their humanity and confirming their value. There is a dream it can be that way again, and though this subject—like many subjects connected to the church—is exhausting to think how far we have to go, to care about the church, means we care about its women.

 Thank you to Alex Scott for reading the stories of two of the women. Thank you to all the women who shared their stories.

Further resources:

How Should the Church Respond to Abusers?

From Dorothy L. Sayers essay, Are Women Human?

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man - there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us!" or "The ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything "funny" about woman's nature.

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Bittersweet by Kevin MacLeod

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