Episode 171: Practicing Justice, Part Six--Justice and Women

As they continue their series looking at practicing justice in our lives, pastors Erica, Sarah, and Steve take a look at justice and women today.  For a lot of human history, women have been treated as "less than" their male counterparts, or treated like they were defective, or regarded as property of men. And even though there are a lot of ways that has changed over time in many places, there are still ways we implicitly operate as though males were the default way of being human, and that women somehow have to be specially "accommodated" because they are aberrations from "default" humanity.  It is so deeply ingrained in us, and pervsasive in so many ways, even if it is often subtle rather than overt, so how do we address the ways women are treated unjustly all around the world, or in our communities still? And what about the ways we talk about God--how have religious folks sometimes caused damage by speaking as though men were more important or closer to God than women, and how might the Scriptures push back on that? Join in the conversation in this week's episode of "Crazy Faith Talk," for a glimpse of the kind of listening and speaking that might be a first step.