Women in Ministry: A Letter

From a FB friend, now edited just a bit:

Thank you again for visiting our church in San Diego. Your talk was invaluable. Although I am in seminary, I am relatively new to the evangelical world (and the bible in general). Having always been a strong feminist, I was surprised to discover that much of the church culture (at large) left me feeling like I didn’t have a seat at the table (and that I had travelled in a time capsule back to the 1950s). As a never-been-married woman in my forties, I’ve been trying to sort out where I take my passion for the Word that hit me like cupid’s arrow a few years ago.

My seminary is a very pro-women seminary but your stories of stellar students leaving their initial vocational calling made me sad and I could identify on some levels.

So, thanks again. Men need to speak on these issues as much as (and if not more than women) because when women do, they can be viewed as being “over-emotional” about things…

Sincerely,

Name withheld

I spoke at Journey church in San Diego and had a Saturday morning session where I spoke about women in ministry from my book, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible.