Ruthie Dierdorff’s Reviews > How God Sees Women: The End of Patriarchy > Status Update

let’s normalize putting scripture references right after the quote and not in the endnotes… i’m getting tired of flipping back so much :/ ❤️❤️❤️

“[Mary is] formidable, too: we tend to think of her lowliness and vulnerability, but forget that she is such a force to be reckoned with that John, the stand-in-son Jesus leaves her in the care of, prophetically depicts her as surviving combat with a demonic red dragon while she gives birth."
Mary mentioned so I thought of you @Marina

“in control of their fertility” is a crazy way to say that we have access to birth control

sheila gregoire study mentioned 😏

“To illustrate the potential misleading power of inferences, imagine I had been taught that before the fall Eve was Adam's superior and master, based on the following arguments: 1) In Genesis 1, the last to be created rules, therefore so does Eve, who is created last in Genesis 2. 2) Eve is called a ‘helper’ —a term mostly used of God who comes to rescue the weak...”
can’t include all 8 but it was 💯

happy feet reference in my theology book? count me in
(i’ve never even seen the movie)

“Not just the man beside me, but this book, has been one of God’s greatest gifts to me. God has used it to reshape how I see myself as a woman, and in so doing, how I see God too.”
the forward of this book is written by the author’s wife this is so sweet