Beth Moore asks Evangelicals: Are women just accessories to men?
The “complementarianism” debate heats up
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7 min readApr 9, 2021
When you grow up an Evangelical Christian, you’re often told the speech of male humans is sacred, as the speech of women is—not.
As a kid in church I never could figure out if all sounds men made, including belches and farts, were considered holy, but when men spoke, it was like God talking! That’s what they thought.
It’s been a problem for Beth Moore, a rare ‘female Evangelical leader’—a category which, for many, doesn’t exist.
The latest round of sex wars got rough.
She updates: “I love Jesus but I’m about to lose my mind.”
You might think Evangelicalism is a religion about gender role? Or fighting about it.
How are men and women to organize, and ‘authority’ to be enforced, is just so damn important.
But the traditional Evangelical view is clearly untenable. It’s that men are to have all ‘authority’ over women. A good Christian woman will want to practice “femininity” by “submission” and silence before men.
