I wrote an article for Christian Century, which will appear in the Aug 1 print edition. It’s available online today. Women of the Bible Say #MeToo.
The editors chose to accompany the articles with great art. There will also be an accompanying article by Anna Carter Florence about the story of Tamar.
I hope the articles inspire preachers to tackle some of these texts in the pulpit. If you have delivered or heard sermons or lessons on these texts, I’m curious about your experiences, and what kind of reaction you received.
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In his retirement, my father did research and writing about the denomination he loved. One of those articles traced the fight within the Christian Reformed Church over the issue of women voting. When he first told me about the research, I thought my dad meant women voting in church — fights I could remember from my childhood in the late 1960s. But my dad laughed and said that long before those fights, the Dutch folk of western Michigan had resisted woman suffrage. In the article he explains why, quoting Klaas Schoolland, a Calvin professor: “Woman suffrage will break the divine laws of human life.”
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