Women, Called and Serving in Leadership

“White Washed Feminism”

April 14, 2009 on 4:10 pm | In Rebuttal, Women in Ministry | No Comments

Because I home school I receive many curriculum catalogs. I just received a new home school catalog in which is a section that displays curriculum and books by Vision Forum. Out of curiosity I stopped to read the sale copy on one of their books, “Passionate Housewives Desperate for God”. I know – stupid me !! I was quickly confronted by these words “exposing the dangers of white washed feminism”.

I wonder if those who espouse such thinking – dangers of white washed feminism – have ever truly looked at or studied the foundation of the feminist movement — before Margaret Sanger, NOW, and their ilk. Feminism has become a cuss word in their mouths – in doing so they have cussed the many dedicated Christian women who founded this movement in their fight to get children out of the sweat shops and to secure women the right to vote.

I wonder if they know that women whom they laud actually fought for the equality of women – women such as Lottie Moon and Catherine Booth.

It continues to amaze me that the SBC holds a Lottie Moon Missionary fund raisers each year — and never confronts the truth that she wrote many letters crying out for the equality of women in the church. One SBC pastor called the this cover up concerning Lottie Moon “the SBC’s dirty little secret.”

I wonder if they know that Catherine Booth’s son-in-law in his eulogy praised her as a “unfailing, unflinching, uncompromising champion of women’s rights.”

“Exposing the dangers of white washed feminism” — NEVER – let us expose the truth of the women of God who fought bravely for the equality of all under God — let us sing the praises of these women who courageously pioneered the way for us.

I’m proud to be counted among such a great cloud of witnesses named as the “white washed feminists”.