http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-08-19T08:57:32Z An idea lab about life, culture and faith Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-08-19T08:57:32Z/comment-page-1#comment-1563 Karen Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:25:36 +0000 http://lilianbarger.com/blog/2007-08-19T08:57:32Z#comment-1563 Good interview. There needs to be more conversation like this. I wish that more men would take the issues seriously--women's involvement in the church. Real change is not going to happen without male allies. I have found that many churches in my area are presenting a pro-woman stance verbally, but not acting on it. They will write in their position statements that women can teach, etc, but then do nothing to invite women to speak. To me that is worse than just being blantant about not having women in leadership roles. It presents a pretense of openness and support that is not really there. Good interview. There needs to be more conversation like this. I wish that more men would take the issues seriously–women’s involvement in the church. Real change is not going to happen without male allies. I have found that many churches in my area are presenting a pro-woman stance verbally, but not acting on it. They will write in their position statements that women can teach, etc, but then do nothing to invite women to speak. To me that is worse than just being blantant about not having women in leadership roles. It presents a pretense of openness and support that is not really there.

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