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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

#209: Tradition, Teaching & Women In the Church

Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

Authentic Intimacy®

Relationships, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Beth Moore recently blogged “A Letter to My Brothers” and flung open the doors to a discussion about women, teaching, and misogyny in the church.  In this Java with Juli, Juli and two friends talk about how they’ve handled the tension of being Bible teachers AND being women. Grab your coffee and hear how you can be a part of the conversation about embracing equality as men and women, honoring God’s Word, and confronting church traditions.

 

Guests:  Michele Cushatt & Sarah J O’Connor

 

Here is the blog from Beth Moore that Juli refers to in this conversation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, this is going to be a very fun conversation.

0:03.0

I love it when a conversation starts like that. Yes, it is going to be fun. I can't wait. Yeah, so you hear the voice of Michelle Cushad, my good friend. Yes. So good to be here. Yeah, and I just introduce you to Sarah O'Connor. Who's my new. Best friend, right? Oh, yeah. That sounds great. And you both live up in Denver, so you can do.

0:24.2

Oh, you do.

0:24.3

I know you. Who's my new, best friends, right? Oh, yeah, are we? That sounds great.

0:21.3

And you both live up in Denver, so you can do. Oh, you do. Okay. You can get together for coffee all the time. Yes, and talk about you or talk about this thing. Sure, why not? There you go. I trust you. Oh, good. It should be fun. So nice to meet you, Sarah. Well, I have to trust you women to bring you into this conversation because it's a tough one.

0:40.6

We're going to you into this conversation

0:38.6

because it's a tough one. We're going to dive into the deep end again today and tackle a topic

0:44.8

that everybody seems to be talking about, but it's controversial. And that is the role of women.

0:51.9

And we've talked about this topic before Sarah you've been on

0:55.8

the show addressing specifically Paul's teaching on women yeah so you're gonna

1:04.8

bring in some of that again but this is gonna get really practical and real

1:09.7

about just the conversation that's happening in our culture today,

1:13.4

particularly with Christian women. There's a lot of anger I'm sensing.

1:17.0

On all sides. I think it's kind of become sacred ground that we are so protective of in so many ways.

1:26.1

So I sense a lot of emotion coming out about it on all sides of the issue.

1:30.3

Yeah.

1:30.7

So not too long ago, Beth Moore wrote a blog post that sort of blew up.

1:36.4

And she was just sharing very honestly her experiences as a Christian woman that is in a teaching ministry.

1:45.1

And I think that started a lot of conversation because she voiced what a lot of women

1:51.1

have experience but don't have a route to speak it out loud.

1:55.3

What was your response to what she said?

1:59.3

I just appreciated her honesty and that she came out and said things that needed to be said,

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