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Faith and feminism

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Spindelina · 10/08/2018 13:57

Inspired by another recent thread, I’d like to talk about feminism in the context of faith and/or faith in the context of feminism.

I grew up in a Quaker family, then took a detour via evangelicalism to somewhere in the middle. My feminism is more recent - really since having DD.

My church has become much less evangelical in the last decade or so. We started out on a path of wanting to “do good” and kind of realised that running the holiday lunch club was much more important than meeting on a Sunday morning.

I don’t have any particular questions, but I’d just like to chat. There were a lot of wise words said on the other thread.

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Manderleyagain · 10/08/2018 16:18

There was a good episode of The Guilty Feminist comedy podcast on faith and feminism. Episode 65 here
guiltyfeminist.com/episodes/

The whole question is really interesting.

OP This (which was linked to in fwr) screams “kingdom of god” at me. What do you mean?

OrdinaryGirl · 10/08/2018 14:42

Cracking article at your link OP. 👍🏼🙂
And great idea for a thread.

Nervous of posting too much on this subject, but I do believe evangelical Christianity has an awful lot to answer for in terms of socially and culturally perpetuating the oppression of women. Amongst other things.

CholloDeNombre · 10/08/2018 14:10

I haven't had the chance to read this essay all the way through, but I like it so far.

www.tjed.org/2011/03/steel-gold-feminism-stateswomanship/

I'll have to come back to this thread later.

Spindelina · 10/08/2018 14:02

victimfocus.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/why-i-dont-want-to-become-equal-to-men/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

This (which was linked to in fwr) screams “kingdom of god” at me.

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