![]() ![]() Yet it still saddens me, each time, when I see how much damaging ideas about women costs real women–especially those living and working in Christian spaces. So it’s not any surprise that Paige Patterson, who commented on the body of a sixteen-year-old girl to a crowd of Christians (resulting in their laughs and applause), shares the same understanding of women’s roles as the Baptist churches involved in the sexual abuse of hundreds of women…” I’ve been teaching the importance of ideas about women since I first entered the classroom in 1998. ![]() Ideas that objectify women result in women being treated as objects (sex objects mostly). Ideas that depic women as less than men influence men to treat women as less than men. ![]() ![]() This is what I wrote in the conclusion: “Ideas matter. But when Daniel Silliman published his news story yesterday, Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today, I couldn’t help but think about a passage in The Making of Biblical Womanhood. ![]()
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