I was familiar with Paul before seminary but less for his dramatic conversion story and more because he is somewhat notorious in feminist theological circles for declaring in 1 Timothy 2:11–13, “A woman must learn, listening in silence with all deference. I do not consent to them becoming teachers, or exercising authority over men; they ought not speak.”[2] Paul is also attributed with saying, as if in direct contradiction to 1 Timothy, in Galatians 3:27–28, “For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Judean nor Greek, slave nor
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