Sublime

I first heard about this heartbreaking story in the book Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities, and Churches

Black liberation theology.

It also strikes me as paradoxical, or at least surprising, that an ancient celibate bishop might have insight that speaks directly to our #MeToo moment, as the systemic monstrosities of male sexual desire are uncovered and named for what they are: domineering, predatory, heedless, abusive.

We know from early church history that the office of deaconess was common for several centuries, granting women church leadership roles, including the responsibility to care pastorally for, catechize, and baptize other women—tasks it was felt it was inappropriate for men to perform.

Kelly M. Kapic

Chaos, the eternal feminine, is also the crushing force of sexual selection. Women are choosy maters (unlike female chimps, their closest animal counterparts39). Most men do not meet female human standards. It is for this reason that women on dating sites rate 85 percent of men as below average in attractiveness.