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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And on a fairly contemporary note, growing up S. Baptist
one of my recollections is the two yearly mission
offerings in honor of SB missionaries Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong,
neither of whom would have been eligible to hold church office, be elected a
deacon, or pastor our churches. Well of course, beginning 2 or 3
years ago, as women they wouldn't even be eligible to be Southern
Baptist missionaries. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I love the story my mother in law used to tell
about her years of work as a deacon in a Baptist church in Kooskia.
They eventually called a pastor who informed women that women deacons weren't
bibilical--interesting to note that he skipped a few verses--but that she
would be asked to coordinate the monthly dinners for the male
deacons. She replied that she really didn't mind being a dish towel
occasionally, but just once in a while she'd like to be a
tablecloth. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>And on another, but somewhat related subject regarding
religious strictures placed on women, you might want to include in your
light reading--I call it light inasmuch as so many of you read philosophical
and epistemological tomes for pleasure--<STRONG>A Thousand Splendid
Suns, </STRONG>which is every bit as good as <STRONG>The Kite
Runner</STRONG>. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sue</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=kjajmix1@msn.com href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">keely emerinemix</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=deco@moscow.com
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:43
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] But she
couldn't serve on the Logos School Board</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Very timely, Wayne, and very much on target.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 (<SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">prostasis</SPAN>) 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.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>keely<BR><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">"And these women that you spit on as they try to
change their worlds/</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Are immune to your consultations . . . they're
quite aware of what they're going through"</SPAN><BR>(With apologies to David
Bowie)<BR><BR><BR>
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From: deco@moscow.com<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007
10:25:01 -0700<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] But she couldn't serve on the Logos
School Board<BR><BR>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=4>Japan's First Female Defense Minister
Assumes Post<BR><BR></FONT></STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>July 4,
2007 10:15 p.m. EST<BR><BR></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Christopher Rizo - AHN Staff Writer</FONT></DIV><FONT
face=Arial>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. </FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial>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.
</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial>"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. </FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial>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.
</FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial>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.</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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