Gender pay gap
The gender pay gap is terrible – the fact that woman are consistently paid less than men is to our shame. PICTURE: [email protected]/Unsplash But have got something fundamentally wrong in this equation. Is the way we evaluate gender difference perpetuating the problem, rather than solving it? Doesn’t an evaluation based on income simply reinforce […]
Korean American churches: Female pastors push back against patriarchy
DEEPA BHARATH, of Associated Press, reports on how, at a time when women make up about 20 per cent of Protestant pastors in the US, Korean American female pastors still struggle to gain acceptance in their home churches…
Measuring equality
I’m a huge believer in equality between the sexes – in the beginning God created us male and female in His image; as Jesus and the apostles declared – females are coheirs and co-workers in the Kingdom. PICTURE: Eddi Aguirre/Unsplash One of the mistakes with our modern attempts at equality is that we determine equality based on […]
‘Rebel Hearts’ film features defiant US nuns “who stood up to the patriarchy of the Catholic Church”
Los Angeles, USRNS A documentary film chronicling a group of protesting nuns who clashed in the 1960s with their archbishop and every expectation of who religious sisters could be will air later this month on the streaming service Discovery Plus. The religious order Immaculate Heart of Mary, a group of nuns based in Hollywood, “stood […]
In the US, ELCA Churchwide Assembly calls sexism and patriarchy sins, condemns white supremacy
Milwaukee, USRNS A new social statement from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America labels patriarchy and sexism as sins and acknowledges the church’s complicity in them. The social statement — titled ‘Faith, Sexism, and Justice: A Call to Action‘ — was approved by the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly with 97 per cent of the vote Friday morning […]