Devi Abraham

In case you missed it, here’s our take on modesty culture. We name four problems: made women responsible for male lust, hyperfocus on legalistic rules, placed a heavy yoke on teens already struggling with body image and hello it sexualized children. wheredowegopod.com/76

In loving memory of Jennifer Lyell. Until we meet again.

@kkdumez So many tears. Jesus knows. He will not be silent.

@sometimesalight I'm really sorry, Hannah. Your work has been a consistent blessing in my life.

@Loyal2tGo17 It’s been tough couple of years. I haven’t talked about it much to protect family privacy but it was one of those unexpected, unwanted, & unavoidable things that gets thrown at you sometimes. God’s been kind & even tho life is different than I thought it would be, it’s still good

Watching the latest Trump nominations & just want to remind everyone that I'm single & open to pursuing a loving relationship w/ a man w/ a foreign passport

If you woke up this AM wondering how US just elected man who supported an insurrection & had a sexual assault verdict against him, parsing voting trends won't offer a satisfying explanation. This is a representative system not a democracy. You have to look further upstream.

@MikeCosper This is exactly what I've noticed.

I’ve talked to dozens of deconstructing Christians and heard from hundreds in the past few years. A sizable majority of them are happily married and deeply committed to their spouses. Those who are questioning the Christian sexual ethic are almost all doing so out of concern for LGBT friends and loved ones. I’ve literally never met a deconstructing Christian where deconstruction preceded a shift in personal sexual ethics. I have seen a few cases where a fallen leader or Xian celebrity deconstructed as part of their post-fall persona. But literally I’m talking about 1 or 2 out of hundreds of stories. Saying people want to deconstruct to sleep around strikes me as a stupid canard that allows conservatives to remain incurious about problems in their own community.

@mbird12 Though people should know she's amazing for so many other reasons than just this one thing.

In other news, my wife is definitely not a Doug Wilson fan.

Settling is more important than keeping students safe from alleged sexual predators. Indeed, it’s increasingly difficult to deny that this is simply business as usual for too many Christian institutions. religionnews.com/2024/10/04/jer…

@taylorsschumann This right here.. this is the thing.

@danitreweek It is! I'd love to meet up, so please let me know how/when we can do that. Can you email me? I'm not on here enough to reliably be checking DMs etc.

@devi_writes I was, but only for 24hrs (well more like 30hrs since Qantas bumped me to a later flight home 😩). The awards night was at St Alfred’s. Is that your church? I’ll be back down there 5-9 Sept and would love a coffee if we can find a time that works 🙂

This just happened. I’m as delighted as I am discombobulated. Tonight, I’ll happily own the “Team Singleness” moniker. #hewhohasears

@BethMooreLPM @KSPrior well.. now i'm glad I logged back on to Twitter. Hope your recovery is going well Beth. Praying for you.

@KSPrior @devi_writes I have such respect for the two women in that picture!

Grateful that I got to connect ever-so-briefly here in Brisbane with @devi_writes!

@jjeepa04 @jamiebgolden She's done one of those Vogue or something skincare routine videos on Youtube.

@KSPrior A delight to see you Karen!

My first obituary for the @nytimes — Paul Pressler, disgraced leader in the Southern Baptist Convention, has died at 94. Once revered, as many as seven men accused him of sex abuse nytimes.com/2024/06/16/obi… Thanks to @RobertDownen_ @baptist_news for their earlier news reporting

@danitreweek My experience in more complementarian/conservative cultures - north west Arkansas - was that there were more women who were at home with kids. They had more time to do unpaid ministry. This is the married women demographic I’m thinking about (reflecting on women my mom knew).

@danitreweek I’d also add that in my experience in very egalitarian broader cultures - Sweden and Australia - the majority of women work for pay and have to (desire, high cost of living, societal pressures etc). There just isn’t the time for extra ministry work especially if it’s unpaid.

🤔 The biblical conviction that the office of overseer, elder & pastor are the same (& restricted to men) has another implication I’ve not seen really addressed. It ought to mean comp’s are at the forefront of promoting women’s ministry (even leadership 😮) in parachurch contexts

@danitreweek But when I’ve been in egalitarian contexts (Sweden for 2 years), there was nothing exclusively for women (or men) so the only women involved in church leadership were the ones helping lead the church.

@danitreweek Men or the system are definitely not doing that but women do. Something I noticed in the US is that there were always robust womens ministries where women taught and resourced other women. I don’t know how many women were paid for this though.

I understand that the SBC is debating the place and process for affirming the Nicene Creed in its doctrinal affirmations. But ... if you cannot affirm the Creed or if you reject it, then you're outside historical Christianity, and you belong in the same category as Unitarians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Episcopalians.

@jamiebgolden Season 2 is hard to beat is my theory.