Joyce Boldrey was a contributing editor to The Post-American (predecessor to Sojourners).
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From the Archives: Summer 1972
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Jesus was a feminist, that is, a person who promotes the equality of women with men, who treats women primarily as human persons and willingly contravenes social customs in so acting. The gospels give no evidence of Jesus ever treating women as inferior to men. When the restricted state of women in the Palestinian Judaism of that time is recalled, even this mere absence of a male superiority attitude is extraordinary. ...
Jesus was no Chauvinist!
Jesus was a feminist, that is, a person who promotes the equality of women with men, who treats women primarily as human persons and willingly contravenes social customs in so acting.
Technocracy and Women's Liberation
Christians are admonished in scripture not “to become entangled in the affairs of this world,” not such an easy task when the god of this world is variously characterized as a sly serpe