Notes on…feminism

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Dr Belle Tindall unpacks purity ethics within the Church and wider culture

Navigating being a Christian and a feminist is complicated. 

Complicated because there are things taught and done in the name of feminism that, however well-meaning, simply don’t look enough like Jesus. And because there are things taught and done in the name of Christianity that don’t look enough like Jesus either. 

Can I be honest with you for a moment? I mean, we’re basically friends now, aren’t we? Being a Christian who believes in the social, political, economic (and spiritual) equality of the sexes can feel a lot like walking on a tightrope. And not any old tightrope – I’m talking Philip Petit walking on a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, 1,350 feet in the air, while the whole of New York city watches from below kind of tightrope. 

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