Women Preaching: Is This Still a Thing?

I was recently reminded on Facebook that the issue of whether or not women should be allowed to preach is still a thing. And since the question of calling is one of the questions I get most often get from women, I thought I would address it here. I think one of the reasons why women preaching is still a problem for some is the use of the Bible itself to relegate women to pew occupying-only status. It is no secret that colonizers used Bible verses to justify American slavery. The Bible has also been used to justify the idea that Black people are somehow “less than” and in need of unpaid forced labor until death as part of some divine destiny, and so on. Likewise, the Bible has been used against women in ways that relegate us to second-class citizenship. The ideas that Black people and women are inferior are tropes that uphold notions of supremacy and patriarchy. They are the threads by which institutional racism and sexism are sown into the fabric of society.

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