[Vision2020] But she couldn't serve on the Logos School Board

[keely emerinemix]

Very timely, Wayne, and very much on target.Maybe even more ironic, at least to me, is that the women named in Romans 16 of the New Testament wouldn't have been able to assume the positions they did in the early church if the early Christian church were run by Wilson, et al.That means Phoebe wouldn't be a deacon.  Junia wouldn't be an apostle (that foaming-at-the-mouth feminist and early church father, John Chrysostom, acknowledged her apostleship, as do most scholars).  Priscilla (usually listed before her husband, Aquila), wouldn't be an authoritative teacher of the male evangelist, Apollos; Tryphena and Tryphosa wouldn't, as the Greek says, be "fervent workers" in advancing the Gospel.  Elsewhere in Romans, and throughout the New Testament, Lydia would not be an independent merchant and patron/benefactor (prostasis) of the church in her home.  Neither would Chloe.  The women at the tomb who first witnessed Christ's resurrection would have been told to relay the information to their husbands first, Joanna wouldn't be following the apostles and supporting them out of her own funds, and Mary wouldn't have given up folding her vast collection of floral table linens to sit at the feet of the Rabbi Jesus (a position of scholastic submission and inquiry thought appropriate only for men).  And Phillip's seven prophesying daughters wouldn't be, well, prophesying, or delivering Spirit-led teaching and exhortation to the church.Thankfully, though, their efforts to spread the Gospel kept them from usurping their husbands' positions on whatever passed as a school board in the first century, and Christian homes were known as places where, persecution be damned, the table linens, dishes, and decor were always simply stunning for Sabbath dinner.  keely"And these women that you spit on as they try to change their worlds/Are immune to your consultations . . . they're quite aware of what they're going through"(With apologies to David Bowie)From: deco at moscow.comTo: vision2020 at moscow.comDate: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:25:01 -0700Subject: [Vision2020] But she couldn't serve on the Logos School Board








Japan's First Female Defense Minister 
Assumes PostJuly 4, 2007 
10:15 p.m. EST
Christopher Rizo - AHN Staff Writer
Tokyo, Japan (AHN)-Japan installed its first female defense 
minister Wednesday after her predecessor resigned for remarks he made appearing 
to condone the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. 
Yuriko Koike, a former national security adviser to Prime 
Minister Shinzo Abe, vowed to strengthen Japan's military alliance with the U.S. 
and to work to improve conditions for women in the Self-Defense Forces, as the 
Japanese military is known. 
"The security environment surrounding our nation remains 
serious, especially after North Korea's ballistic missile launches and its 
nuclear experiment," the 54-year-old Koike said in her inauguration speech, 
according to The Daily Times. 
Koike, a former television newscaster, is a Cairo University 
graduate, is fluent in Arabic and known widely as an expert on the Middle East 
and Islam. 
She was first elected to parliament in 1992, hopping between 
small political parties before joining the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in 
2002. She supported former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's decision to send 
troops to Iraq.

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