DISQUS

Bilgrimage: Of Men, Women, and Capital Cities: Listening to Women's Word and Witness

  • Ralph Lowrance (Charlotte, NC) · 2 months ago
    As Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again."

    Bill, if women had had anything noteworthy and meaningful to say, they would have written their fair share of the Bible. Obviously, they cannot even be conduits for inspired revelations, much less originate any profound and cogent works.

    What makes you think that that has changed? Look, MEN even have to TELL women what they can and can't do with their own bodies.
  • terenceweldon · 2 months ago
    Ralph:

    Please reassure me that this response to a reasoned post listing just some of the many women whose writing represents an abundance of "profound and cogent works " is plain irony?
  • WDL · 2 months ago
    Irony much, Ralph? :-) Interesting that you are so sure that women didn't write the scriptures. Wasn't there a study a few years ago which suggested that the Pentateuch may have had several women authors?
  • WDL · 2 months ago
    I'm pretty sure Ralph is writing with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, Terry.
  • Fran · 2 months ago
    My heart is so heavy today Bill, I am pretty quiet, but I wanted to read this. It consoles me as I feel validated by your words, but not necessarily by all that is around me.

    Last night my theology professor (a woman) brought up Mary Daly at Harvard in the 70's, using the theme of Exodus. That got me going somewhere and then today's news from Rome kept my heart taut all day long.

    I am going to go read now, but I am glad I stopped by here to see this. Thank you so much.
  • WDL · 2 months ago
    Dear Fran, I share your mourning. The news from Rome is dismal--the appointment making Burke a king-maker, and the eager embrace of misogynists and homophobes.

    But something in my soul tells me that the more evil some of the institutional forces become, the more light will shine elsewhere, to put the evil into an unwelcome spotlight. So perversely, I live in hope, despite the evil maneuvers.

    It's not the first time the church and its leaders have done evil. Perhaps these choices are desperate responses to Spirit-led movements in the church that are considered so threatening at the center that those occupying the center are willing to unmask themselves definitively now.
  • DoubtingThomas · 2 months ago
    Is Burke a cardinal now?
  • WDL · 2 months ago
    No, not to my knowledge, Thomas. But the position to which he's been appointed gives him great power in vetting new bishops.