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& #39;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& #39;t. They write like pearl clutching toddler. Women that use emotion like a bludgeon are exhausting."

I& #39;ve read these women. They& #39;re not the pearl clutchers.
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This short thread only scratches the surface of what women who don& #39;t toe the patriarchy line suffer. Here& #39;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.
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