Apologia Academy: Women in Control
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- Well, this past year alone, we've been confronted with dizzying cultural changes related to the identity of men and women.
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- The very notions of male and female are shifting before our eyes. Last year witnessed the first women to complete ranger training for the
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- United States Army without any adjustments having been made to the standards. Last season, the
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- National Football League hired two women as officials, and the Phoenix Cardinals hired a woman onto its coaching staff to coach linebackers.
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- In December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that there is no role in any branch of the
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- United States military that any woman may not fill. All restrictions based on sex have been removed.
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- And of course, last summer the United States Supreme Court declared that same -sex couples have a fundamental right to marry.
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- The larger story of women's ordination, I'm going to argue, has less to do with a shift in theology as it did with a shift in the everyday routines of Protestant religious practice.
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- Many have said that our practices flow out of our theology, but let's not forget that our theology often flows out of our practices just as well.