Women bloggers spawn an evangelical crisis of authority

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Influential women in the Christian blogosphere include Sarah Bessey, left, Austin Channing Brown, Tish Harrison Warren, and Jen Hatmaker.

By Emily McFarlan Miller | 18 hours ago

(RNS) When Sarah Bessey started blogging in 2005, she saw it as a way to keep in touch with friends and family.

And that was in the early days of the Christian blogosphere, which she remembers as an “oasis of community” — strangers sharing everything from parenting tips to theology and filling comment sections with “lively and respectful” dialogue.

Flash forward to 2017.

In many places, blogging seems to have become all about personal branding. At the same time, Bessey’s blog has brought her speaking engagements and inspired two books — “Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women” and “Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith” — with a third in the works. Bessey now has nearly 43,000 followers on Twitter and about 38,000 on Facebook.

http://religionnews.com/2017/05/15/women-bloggers-spawn-an-evangelical-crisis-of-authority/

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1. hahahaha ahahahaaha oh the navete.

“I know that I love Jesus and follow Jesus better when I hear why and how other people follow him — especially when I hear from people who aren’t always approved by the establishment,” she said. “God isn’t trademarked.”

Ahahaha oh man, within the element of the Evangelical Christian, oh yes it is. Branded, trademarked, leveraged 8 ways till sunday, oh man. These poor people, they genuinely don't have any idea do they?

This


and this
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this shit is not free. Follow the money. There are two reasons evangelicals have a problem with these women bloggers; 1. loss of power. Patriarchal control structures don't go quietly into that good night. But even bigger issue, is number 2; they threaten revenue streams.

That shit won't fly. Hell hath no fury like a religious corporation with declining revenues.
Search "evangelical church bankruptcy"

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2. Actually, a main point of the article is how the internet opened up areas of dissent.

Substitute "atheism" for the last word here and it applies with equal force.

“The internet gave women like me — women who are outside of the usual power and leadership narratives and structures — a voice and a community,” Bessey told RNS by email. “We began to write and we began to find each other, we began to learn and be challenged, we began to realize we weren’t as alone as we thought we were. Blogging gave us a way past the gatekeepers of evangelicalism.”

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3. There aren't any atheist gatekeepers, but on a level, I will agree

that the 'public' persona of 'atheist' currently tends white and male. Kinda trends alongside the field of Philosophy in general. Which is also white and male.

That's changing though, and rapidly so. And the 'holdouts', such as they exist, aren't bolstered by anything intrinsic to atheism. They've got nothing but the culture within which they exist to fall back on for exclusionary support.

There is no 1 Corinthians 14:34 in Atheism(TM).
But there is 'barefoot and pregnant and make me a sammich' in American culture.

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4. There is a pantheon of atheists, though, going back to Epicurus.