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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 5d

but examine everything carefully and hang on to what is good. Avoid every kind of evil. Now, may the God of peace himself cause you to be completely dedicated to him; and may your spirit, soul, and body be kept intact and blameless at our Lord Jesus Christ’s coming." 1 Thes 5:14b-23

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 5d

Make sure no one repays a wrong with a wrong, but always pursue the good for each other and everyone else. Rejoice always. Pray continually. Give thanks in every situation because this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Don’t suppress the Spirit. Don’t brush off Spirit-inspired messages,

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 5d

Hi everyone, I'll be away for a few days ... I hope the coming week is filled with encouragement and nourishment for you. Best wishes, OB

"Comfort the discouraged. Help the weak. Be patient with everyone.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 5d

unfulfillable pressure of a calling defined by demanding, gender-specific “boxes” that breeds only guilt and inadequacy ...

... Brothers, be free. Sisters, be free.”– Christine Jolly

From: www.fixinghereyes.org/single-post/...

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Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader

My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 5d

“I grieve for the women who've compiled a checklist for an ideal “spiritual leader,” only to face the inevitable disappointment and resentment when their husbands fall short. Likewise, I ache for the men who stagger under the immense,

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 6d

From: www.threads.com/@nickmobrien...

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Nick O’Brien (@nickmobrien) on Threads

The enemy would have us believe power belongs to the person or group who can exert the most violence the most effectively. It’s a really persuasive lie because it looks really true on the world’s stage. But the truth of God’s creation and Christ’s resurrection is that the ability to create death is no power at all. The ability to create life is real power. We’ve bought the lie that God’s justice means he must play our bloodshed power game. God is not playing.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 6d

But the truth of God’s creation and Christ’s resurrection is that the ability to create death is no power at all. The ability to create life is real power. We’ve bought the lie that God’s justice means he must play our bloodshed power game. God is not playing.”
– Nick O’Brien

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 6d

“The enemy would have us believe power belongs to the person or group who can exert the most violence the most effectively. It’s a really persuasive lie because it looks really true on the world’s stage.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 7d

From the book "Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation"

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 7d

It was a vision that promised protection for women but left women without defense, one that worshiped power and turned a blind eye to justice, and one that transformed the Jesus of the Gospels into an image of their own making.” - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 7d

In the end, Doug Wilson, John Piper, Mark Driscoll, James Dobson, Doug Phillips, and John Eldredge all preached a mutually reinforcing vision of Christian masculinity—of patriarchy and submission, sex and power.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 7d

From the Orthodox Barbie archives:

[On the relationship between extreme and moderate forms of complementarianism]: “When it came to evangelical masculinity, the ideological extreme bore a remarkable resemblance to the mainstream.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 9d

“... for every Mark Driscoll there are 100 unknown pastors doing similar things.”– Lark TheoSis

From: www.threads.com/@larktheosis...

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 11d

“All of our unlimited data plan customers are equal, we've just separated them by gender. Men have unlimited data functionality and women are restricted in what they can do on their phones, but all of our customers are equally valuable to us.””– Nick O’Brien

From: www.threads.com/@nickmobrien...

Nick O’Brien (@nickmobrien) on Threads

Imagine a phone company randomly restricts data from all of their female unlimited data plan customers. People are furious, so the company responds with a statement: "All of our unlimited data plan ...

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 11d

“Imagine a phone company randomly restricts data from all of their female unlimited data plan customers.
People are furious, so the company responds with a statement:

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 12d

Church communities are invited to do the same—and we miss out dearly when we refuse to.” – Liz Cooledge Jenkins

From: www.cbeinternational.org/resource/if-...

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If Complementarianism Isn't Working for Some, It Isn't Working for All - CBE International

Why are some women seemingly content in complementarian settings and others not? Women gifted in leadership feel the painful chains of patriarchy more than others, as they reach to use their gifts wit...

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 12d

God cares about the one for whom the system is not working, even if it seems to be working for one or nine or ninety-nine others. God values and makes room for each individual in her amazing and complicated particularity.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 12d

And, the apostle Paul is very clear here, if one part of the body suffers, the whole body suffers (1 Cor. 12:26). The Luke 15 parables of the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son tell a similar story:

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 12d

From the Orthodox Barbie archives:

“Churches who say to women, you may not preach, or we don’t want you to lead us, are like the eye saying to the hand, I don’t need you (1 Cor. 12:21).

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 13d

But because of Jesus’ redemptive act, there is again the real possibility of equality, affinity and harmony between the sexes. In Galatians 3:28, and similar passages, we are given “a redemptive vision for community life.”” - Marg Mowczko

From: margmowczko.com/galatians-3_...

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Galatians 3:28: Our Identity in Christ & in the Church - Marg Mowczko

Paul makes both a theological and sociological statement in Gal 3:28.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 13d

From the Orthodox Barbie archives:

“Sin marred the unity, equality and affinity between men and women, resulting in disunity and a gender hierarchy where women were unilaterally subordinated to men (Gen. 3:16).

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 14d

Furthermore, no matter what awful consequences follow from their theology, they remain adamant that God has set them over others."

From: www.cbeinternational.org/resource/jus...

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Justifying Injustice with the Bible: Apartheid - CBE International

Today, virtually all evangelicals including complementarians believe that the Bible in no way approves of or endorses slavery. It is an evil and Christians should oppose slavery. They find it hard to ...

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 14d

He was forced to resign as minister and put out of his home without a salary.”– Kevin Giles

Giles goes on to say, "...evangelical and Reformed theologians can, with Bible in hand, find arguments from Scripture to justify and legitimate their rule over others.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 14d

In 1963, Beyers Naudé, another Afrikaner theologian, spoke out and wrote in opposition to the claim that the Bible supported Apartheid. Naudé and his family were completely ostracized by their fellow Afrikaners.

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Orthodox Barbie @orthodox-barbie.bsky.social · 14d

“In 1960, ten leading Reformed Afrikaner theologians published a series of essays condemning Apartheid and the claim that the Bible endorsed racial separation. They were put on trial for heresy, found guilty, and denounced by the prime minister, Dr. H. Verwoerd, himself a theologian.

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