The Church of Christ Turned Me Into a Feminist
I've been looking through old posts, and I don't think I've told this story before, at least not the whole story. So here goes. Most COC congregations have gospel meetings (i.e., revivals, but they don't use that term because the Baptists do) once or twice a year, when they invite a guest preacher to come in and preach every night for a week. When I was 6 or 7, the church invited this old Southern preacher to hold a gospel meeting. One night during a sermon, he started yelling from the pulpit and pounding on it. He was so worked up that I actually looked up and listened to what he was saying. Mind you, up to this point in my life, I hadn't paid a bit of attention to a church sermon because they were unremittingly boring. Instead, I sat there playing with my little dolls or coloring in my Jesus or Noah's ark coloring books. This guy had the thickest accent, so I had trouble understanding him, but I finally realized what he was saying: he denounced the women...