Ultimatly, Christian Feminist is about taking serious Gods command that we work to bring about freedom from oppression.
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?" Isaiah 58v6
Its about being angry about the opression God is angry about:
"They trample on the heads of the poor as upon the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed." Amos2v7
When Jesus went to his hometown to preach for the first time, he opened the scriptures and proclaimed his mission on Earth:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Luke 4v18+19
These passages highlight God's desire for liberation from oppression. Christian feminists see that of the many kinds of oppression in the world, one of these is oppression based on gender. And so we work to end this oppression, battling domestic violence, sexual violence, mysogynistic pornography, prostitution, workplace inequality, inequality in the home and in school, female genital mutalation, trafficking, the objectification of children and many other things.
We are working to try and bring in the Kingdom of God, bringing real freedom - through knowing God, making God known, and working for the reality of God's desires here on Earth.
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This was exactly what I needed to hear today, I dont think most of the people in my church really get that christianity is about liberating everyone from opresion and I'm finding church quite hard going at the moment
thanks
Thank you! Many of my christian friends don't understand my feminisist addition to my identity. In my Women's Studies class we learned that feminists are looking for the equality of all people since we all affect each other. This is exactly what God has called me to do as a Christian. This post (although written in 2008) speaks to me roughly 4 years later. Thanks again!
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