July 14th, 2010
I can imagine two reasons why evangelical churches would not ordain women who are equally as gifted as men who are ordained. Fear, for starters. If a man’s masculinity depends on being dominant, then he will feel he’s losing status in the eyes of other men if he is led by a woman. His self-worth is threatened when a woman is above him in a hierarchical system.
Often, of course such reasons against ordaining women are masked by theological rationalizations generated by male chauvinists - and even by some women who find a variety of benefits for themselves in the traditional position that the church has prescribed for women…..
Tony Campolo in Adventures in Missing the Point

∞11:37 pm, by zbobbitt