One of the top books of 2022 in our annual Books of the Year is Joy A. Schroeder and Marion Ann Taylor’s Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters Through the Centuries (WJK). At this year’s Society of Biblical Literature an entire session was dedicated to this book. Four respondents followed by two follow-up responses by the authors. The four respondents were Jaime Clark-Soles, Mitzi Smith, Eunjoo Kim, and me. I am honored that each of the respondents has agreed to post their responses here at Tov Unleashed. Today’s post is by me.
Thank you for sharing these responses. There is much i could say about my own trajectory along these lines. I only wish i had come to a mutualist/egalitarian position while i was a pastor. I just couldn't see then what i see now.
Refreshing. Your interaction with those on both sides of complementarianism and egalitarian viewpoints has clearly driven you to dig deep. (No surprise there.) I will reread this entry again, as it contained so much. I say this with gratitude. So many of us who have identified as evangelicals have edited ourselves in certain circles. I want to be a voice for those whose voices have truly long been silenced.
I guess this isn't the place to be trying to connect with you personally. I'm fascinated by your link to Terren Williams and toy review of his book - I didn't know there was a connection. He pastors my kids in Cape Town since he came into the Vineyard stable after the complementarian (and from my vantage point fundamentalist leaning) church group he had been part of for close to two decades (I think) forced him out. I will be linking with him in February when my wife and I take our annual pilgrimage to the 'beloved country.'
Thank you for sharing these responses. There is much i could say about my own trajectory along these lines. I only wish i had come to a mutualist/egalitarian position while i was a pastor. I just couldn't see then what i see now.
Very good thank you.
Refreshing. Your interaction with those on both sides of complementarianism and egalitarian viewpoints has clearly driven you to dig deep. (No surprise there.) I will reread this entry again, as it contained so much. I say this with gratitude. So many of us who have identified as evangelicals have edited ourselves in certain circles. I want to be a voice for those whose voices have truly long been silenced.
Thank you for this. Powerful.
I guess this isn't the place to be trying to connect with you personally. I'm fascinated by your link to Terren Williams and toy review of his book - I didn't know there was a connection. He pastors my kids in Cape Town since he came into the Vineyard stable after the complementarian (and from my vantage point fundamentalist leaning) church group he had been part of for close to two decades (I think) forced him out. I will be linking with him in February when my wife and I take our annual pilgrimage to the 'beloved country.'