BA (Hons) Ed, GradDip & MA Theology. Writing on female centric theology in Paulโs writings. Mum x3. Cohost
@RecoveringGod
. Outreach worker in a Methodist church
I have just spoken about my MA dissertation on Paul and female centric theology in Romans. I have added below my Patreon acc. which I have published my Diss. and the podcast.
I think the most memorable moment of Xmas Day for me wld be me watching
@rickygervais
new Netflix special & my VERY evangelical m-in-law coming into the living room only to catch the skit about a young boy w*nking off a pedo for a puppy.๐ฅต๐ฅต๐ซ
Every Christian & church should pray for Afghanistan, today, this Sunday.
May we weep with those who weep.
Especially for women & girls whoโs lives are seen as commodities to be used & given as spoils of war.
God, be near.
I need women to SHOUT OUT their theology education, either completed or in process.
Hi, my name is Amy. I live in the UK. Iโve a GradDip Theology & Iโm a MA Theology student (+ a BAhons in Ed)
Post below & letโs celebrate! ๐ซด๐ผ๐ซด๐ผ
Jordan Petersonโs argument against childless women is that in later life these women will be lonely. But children donโt stay around forever in the home. You still have to build a life for yourself that doesnโt involve your children. 1/3 ๐งต
An Angel went to Samsonโs mother about Samsonโs birth, not her husband. The priest went to Hannah, not her husband. An Angel went to Mary first, not her husband. God is no respecter of persons. God goes where God wills. Stop making men a divine umbrella over women
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I want to share a story about when I gave a boy the โJael Testโ
A while back, there was this guy who came to my village. He was relatively young and attractive at the time, a little older than me. Although, *spoiler alert* I was married at the time,
Prayers pls: about to do emergency fosterโing care for two teens. I donโt usually talk about my personal life on here, but if you cld send prayers up that wld be great.
Oh dear, John MaCArthur is trending. So, this is your friendly reminder he has terrible theology, heโs a misogynist, heโs abusive to brothers & sisters in the faith (female pastors & charismatics), heโs loaded ๐ฐ, & heโs buried spousal & child abuse in his church. MARK&AVOID
What I love about British dramas (compared to American ones) is theyโre not afraid to use middle age women & men as main characters; where women havenโt had facial work & look their age.
โGod gave me cancer, and he gave it to me for his glory.โ When you say such things, know that your theology is junk. Cancer is a death sentence, since when does the God of life give death? Neo-Calvinism is ๐ฉ
I cannot stress enough to young women that you need to get a career before you marry. Even if you give it up to be a SAHM, still have a career to go back to or fall back on, for whatever reason (sickness, death, divorce).
Got the job! Will be doing ministry full-time for the Methodists.
Despite theobros crying on social media, my husband told all his work colleagues & he said they were all waiting for my call (in the pub) about whether I got the job, lol.
Real men arenโt insecure about women
Had a job interview today. Find out tomorrow evening if I get it. Going back into church ministry after a long hiatus doing church ministry (& being paid to boot). Excited though.
Itโs 2022 & men still think woman are waiting to pounce on them. If I wanted to blow my life up it wldnt be a middle-aged slightly overweight guy w/ an Mdiv pulling in $40k a year. Dude, no oneโs waiting in the wings to pick you up w/ your wallpaper of books & badly fitting suits
So, women are to be silent according to 1 Cor 14, but then Paul sends Phoebe off with his letter from Corinth (to Rome). How does that work? Well, IMHO Paul doesnโt silence women or strip them of ecclesiological autonomy, itโs just a poor reading of scripture to uphold patriarchy
This makes my blood boil. You scream about being โpro-lifeโ & โxnโ yet you mock ppl w/ disabilities as if theyโre not fully human. Vile human being.
โGod blessed me w/ a husband/wife I loveโ โGod blessed me w/ childrenโ โGod blessed me w/ a lovely houseโ โGod blessed me w/ a great jobโ
All marks of the prosperity gospel. You think the PG stops w/ Copeland, lolz. Western Xnty is permeated w/ it.
HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY TO ME! Thereโs times I wasnโt sure if Iโd make it. Thereโs been some real hard parts in my life, but God made me a fighter (for myself & others). Iโm loyal AF, funny, clever, & despite being told otherwise (overt or covert) - Iโm good enough bc God loves me!
@PiggTimothy
Trying to gotcha Beth as a preacher in church as some kind of โdriftโ (to historic Church, but I digress) & then the terrible dread that sinks in when you find out in all your research you forgot to find out what โlectorโ means, so you either have to double down or deleteโฆ.
Itโs no coincidence the TGC blog post on being fat is not aimed at the plethora of obese men in the pulpit, but a woman fat shaming women. Bc patriarchy demands women are for men, & men need women to attain their concept of beauty (see: media for female expectation)
Male pastors will literally take a massive pay cheque, buy million dollar houses, stand up on a platform for wk after wk for hundreds of ppl to listen to them, but any pushback & they whimper like a baby & throw their toys out the pram.
So many men are not fit to be pastors
Rarely have I met a Xn male & thought, yea, heโs an alpha male.
Rarely have I met a Xn male & thought, gosh, what a total beta.
I have met Xn men who are kind & caring, Iโve also met obnoxious Xn men.
Ultimately the alpha/beta narrative is Xn fan fiction for insecure men
Iโm taller than him & do weights in the gym 5x a wk. I also donโt shepherd ppl into heresy.
Regardless of all that, If you want to feel in control & be the dominate one: get a puppy not a life partner bc heโs liturally talking about owning a domestic pet here.
Iโve done it! Iโve handed in my MA dissertation. Not sure if today is the worst day or the best day to do it๐ค๐
Not bad for a girl who was told at school sheโd never amount to anything. & had undiagnosed dyslexia which made me think I was stupid
If you make what it is to be a female so narrow that when a young girl doesnโt feel they fit into that narrative they may look for alternative ways of being human.
The church is NOT innocent in the identity issues we are now having in society.
This is what hating females does
I donโt put personal stuff on twitter, but today I lost my job bc someone lied about me. bc I work w/ vulnerable adults any negative comment is detrimental. Iโm so angry bc what was said was a lie & I donโt understand why the person wld do that. So now I need to find a new job
I was brought up by a single mum who worked full-time. Live was hard, we were poor. But my mum was a Xn & introduced me to Xnty & thatโs what changed my life.
These trad women donโt believe in the power of the Gospel, they just live by self-imposed โgood worksโ to save them
Therefore, Petersonโs argument falls bc of this.
In conclusion: A womanโs role has never only been about having children. And itโs also not a necessity for women to procreate to be fully human. 3/3
Donโt tell me you โfollow the Bibleโ & then tell unmarried ppl to marry & have kids as the highest ethic of the kingdom. Bc Paul wld like a word w/ yous. ๐๐ฝ๐๐ผโ๐ผ
Families donโt shout at ppl who are 10 mins late for the gatherings. Rather, families are just glad everyone is together enjoying each others company. Itโs been years & years since Iโve been in a church that acted like an actual family.
If you wanna use Song of Songs then letโs never forget this verse is reversing the curse:
To woman he said, โYour desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.โ Gen 3:16
The bride finally responds: "I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me" SoS 7:10
A reminder that all adults that want to play Russian Roulette w/ Covid by voluntarily refusing a shot of medicine are not the same as ethnic Jews, which includes countless children, slaughtered in their millions in 1940โs.
Youโre a disgrace. Shame on all of you.
I texted my dad to see how he was, apparently heโs not been in contact & canโt see me bc his girlfriendโs dog has been sickโฆwhich says it all.
You may have lived your life not worth a fatherโs time or effort BUT God wonโt ever forsake us. It may sound like words, but itโs truth
A reminder to homeschooling mums like this one: worker ants are female.
Thanks for coming to my science lesson.
Next: Male seahorses get pregnant & giving birth. ๐๐ฝ
Itโs the reason why women whoโve only lived for their kids are bereft when they leave the home to live their life bc these women totally loose their role. Itโs harder to forge something new later in life, when you cld have been cultivating something for the last 20+yrs. 2/3
Paul was a Pharisee. Jewish women spoke in synagogues. It wasnโt Jewish Paul silencing women, it wasnโt his heritage. Rather it was Greco-Roman need to subordinate women. โthey are not permitted to speak..as the LAW saysโ (1Cor 14)๐๐ฝ thatโs not Jewish law & itโs not Paulโs words
Rest in Peace. You beautiful, godly woman. You lived your whole life for your people in this country & many others. God bless Queen Elizabeth II, God save the Queen. ๐ฌ๐ง
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
Guys, I just got a call from my American publisher, theyโre cancelling my book deal bc Iโm British and Iโm writing a book about why England is the greatest nation in the world.
This is nuts.
@dalepartridge
Itโs not a Christian flag if itโs not a symbol of universal Christianity. Literally no one outside the states has ever seen this flag before. Frankly, itโs weird.
Desiring God men: trans ppl donโt exist, only your biology determines your gender, not outward appearance
Also Desiring God men: beards prove to the world your innate manliness, itโs Bible.
A lot of church planting is just power grabbing & self-kingdom building. & before you wElL AsChUaLlY me, the stats back that up. Last time I read about it around 70% of new churchโs congregations are from other churches/already Xn. So everyone is just playing church chess.
Iโm once again asking the men telling husbandโs they must read and teach their wife the Bible what to do when the wife knows more than the husband?
Asking for a frienโฆ..wife who knows more about the Bible & theology than her husband.
Merry Christmas you crazy American twitter friends. You may all get pissed off w/ me bc Iโm not American so donโt speak your language, but I appreciate you all. Have a good one!
Donโt say Christianity is trash when youโre basing your experience only on American white evangelicalism. Bc all that says is Christianity is American, white, & evangelical.
It. Is. Not
@ThisIsKyleR
Literally no one is judging you for calling yourself a Christian. Theyโre judging you for being a racist murderer who says heโs a Christian.
โwe support those who the world wants to throw awayโ lines from the pulpit whilst doing nothing when the actual opportunity arises.
Thatโs it.
Thatโs the essay tweet
I sometimes wonder if *some* Americans realise the issues facing Xns in USA donโt represent all of Xnty. Ur problems probs arenโt the same as, IDK, an urban Indonesian Church or a Zimbabwean Church plant or a Icelandic denomination.The Xns of this world struggles donโt = USA Xnty
Tell me youโve never watched a football โsoccerโ game without telling me, BC YOU JUST SAID 3 HOURS, youโve never watched a football โsoccerโ game..