Women who belong to conservative denominations and choose to write books will be attacked by patriarchists in those denominations even if the books are squarely within the denomination's creeds. Criticisms like “Why can’t these women just ...
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"... take their shoes off and make us sandwiches!?!” from a pastor in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church are among the milder ones leveled at women like Aimee Byrd, Rachel Miller and Valerie Hobbs.

The denomination is looking into the attacks. I pray the women are vindicated.
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Misogyny is rampant in a FB group run by an OPC elder: "Women theologians...say they write like men but they don't. They write like pearl clutching toddler. Women that use emotion like a bludgeon are exhausting."

I've read these women. They're not the pearl clutchers.
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This short thread only scratches the surface of what women who don't toe the patriarchy line suffer. Here's a source for those quotes and more on the investigation into the attacks on women by elders and pastors.
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P.S. The OPC pastors and elders quoted from that Facebook group thought they were operating in secret where no one would see. Jesus warned against such vile shenanigans.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Luke%2012:1-3&version=NIV
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