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Mary, Christian Patriachy and the Existence of Poverty
John 12:1-8 Our story this week involving "Mary" was used to historically disparage women leaders within Christianity toward a purely patriarchal form. Characterizing Mary Magdalene as a prostitute advanced the patriarchal goals of disparaging women as somehow "morally inferior" to men, and therefore unfit as leaders in the Western Christian church. This argument is hinges on incorrectly conflating the stories of three women in the Gospels. Women were leaders in the egalitarian sectors of the early Jesus movement and there is no reason why the shouldn't be allowed to be so, today. Lastly, the…
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