The Women Proclaimed Him

You know what’s awesome? Finding other church communities who are as open to EVERYONE as mine is. What would the world look like if all churches more closely resembled the love it said to give?

I’ve found Zach Lambert on Twitter- and I really have enjoyed his thoughts and reflections on Christianity and love and preaching. Here’s a sermon from his church about women and preaching:

At the beginning his talks about how he doesn’t know ANY female preachers who haven’t had vitriol come at them for preaching. I, conversely, don’t know any who HAVE had this happen- or maybe I’m naive or I just haven’t heard them talk about it.

I know so many women preachers and they are fabulous. And as Zach says here- there’s so many women preachers. Maybe this is my Episcopalian privilege- or the privilege of coming up in this church post the Philadelphia Eleven. There’s another interesting point here that I took from the video:

WOW. And yet, also, it shouldn’t be shocking. Permit my sarcasm here to say in pretend shock that WOW, people of modern times have twisted the Bible?! How shocking! Of course, we know this often has happened. So why hang on to this idea that women can’t preach?

Please allow me to be simple and say- fear? Fear of allowing multiple voices beyond the ones that have dominated Christianity. Which might allow different ideas that might challenge the status quo. It’s always good to ask- who benefits from things not changing? I’ll let you decide.

But I think one of the most powerful arguments for women preachers is this: Jesus came to them. Jesus appeared first to women when He arose from the grave. We know this. It’s the women who proclaim the good news and then men don’t believe it.

It’s the women.

As we round out Lent, as we round out International Women’s Month… let us remember those women. Jesus came to them. For a reason. On purpose. Nothing was by accident.

The women proclaimed His Rising.