Breaking the Silence on Sexuality within the Orthodox Church

Charli Riggle

From the Sunday bulletin at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, Tacoma, WA, 10 July 2011 (author unknown)

During recent decades, some feminist Bible scholars insisted that Saint Paul had changed Christianity from something good for women to something very bad.

These feminist scholars said that Jesus Christ brought a brand new teaching to the world: that men and women are truly equal, especially in the sight of God. But Saint Paul, they said, had used his vast influence and powers of persuasion to change that teaching. He believed and taught that women are inferior to men, as they had always been.

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