Today, Trisha Famisarian of Adventist Gender Justice, continues our journey through the Seventh-day Adventist Fundamental Beliefs with a post about church unity (Fundamental Belief #13) by examining gender inequality in the church as a fundamental denial of unity. Here an excerpt from her post:
Church unity cannot be realized without equality that affirms diversity, or else that which bounds the members together acts as chains of uniformity that are imposed on all. The sort of ‘unity’ that the global church voted for in 1995 at Utrecht, the vote against women’s ordination and the silence that followed, with the reasoning that practical dilemmas would otherwise ensue, underscores a commitment to self-preservation over seeking justice.
In the comments, Bill Cork pushes back:
Boff and Reuther are liberation theologians who have always argued for their church to listen to the voice of Christians in the 2/3 World, but here’s the rub–what happens when those previously marginalized get a voice and don’t say what was expected?
Are we listening to the voice of our brothers and sisters, or are the “Mission Lands” to be marginalized in a new way?
Read the rest of Trisha's post and join in the comments.
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