As I'm yet again beginning to tackle the women-in-ministry question, I found this quote in Rich Nathan's paper on women in leadership. The whole issue really is not primarily about what women (or men) or 'allowed' to do (lead? preach? decide?), but rather what men and women - deep down - are intended to be.
"Perhaps it was no wonder that women were first at the cradle and last at the cross. They had
never known a man like this Man. There never has been such another. A prophet and teacher
who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made sick jokes
about them…who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took
their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out this sphere for them, never
urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no ax to grind and no
uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unselfconscious. There was no act, no sermon, and no parable in the whole gospel that borrows pungency from female perversity. Nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything “funny” or inferior about women’s nature."
Dorothy L. Sayers (close friend of C. S. Lewis), Are Women Human?
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