Women and the emerging church
Steve Taylor at Emerging Kiwi has posted a podcast interview with Jenny McIntosh from Spirited Exchanges.
It raises three issues in regard to women and the emerging church:
“We identify three ways in which the emerging church can exclude women;
- in the way the Bible is used
- in not seeking representation in speaking and in leadership
- in continuing a “culture”, patterns of being and talking, that are male in nature.”
I still don’t think the discussion went specific enough on the issue of culture. I had a hint that Steve felt so too when he said he was feeling disempowered. So, I would be interested in knowing what people think about how we can advance the cause of women in the emerging church. What can leaders of local faith communities do? What can leaders of denominations do? What will it take?
This is not the thread for allocating blame or even saying aha that is what I am talking about - but rather for discussions on ways forward.
You can download the podcast - women and the emerging church here
April 10th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Those are very obvious dots…
April 10th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Can’t say I’d be jumping up and down for a job in the ADF for many of the reasons you describe… it’s so hard to achieve any credibility as a woman in a blokey, sexist, heirachical environment. Not for the faint hearted… and not for this little black duck thank you.
But I really wanted to explore the idea of the Australian “blokey” subculture and how to do contextualised mission in that setting. We don’t think of it as a subculture because it is a fairly dominant one… but I think it needs to be regarded that way, and for us to put on “missionary” hats.