Carol Penner - Women and Men: Gender in the Church
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Sponsored by Women's Concerns Committees, Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and Mennonite Central Committee Canada
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Canadian Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Women and men : gender in the church "Sponsored by Women's Concerns Committees, Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and Mennonite Central Committee Canada." Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8361-9079-3 1. Sex roleReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Penner, Carol, 1960 BT708.W65 1998 261.8'343 C98-931371-9
The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture is from The New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and is used by permission. Phillips, from The New Testament in Modern English, Macmillan Publishing Company.
WOMEN AND MEN: GENDER IN THE CHURCH Copyright 1998 by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7 Published simultaneously in USA by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683. All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-72959 Canadiana Entry Number: C98-931371-9 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-9079-3 Printed in the United States of America Book and cover design by Paula M. Johnson
4. Homemaking and Careers: Cooking the Ordinary Soup of Our Everyday Lives
Eileen Klassen Hamm with Les Klassen Hamm
41
5. Living in Our Created Bodies
Karen Schlichting and Aiden Schlichting Enns
51
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6. Physical and Sexual Abuse: Violence in Gender Relationships
Carol Penner
63
7. A Black Woman's Voice
Regina Shands Stoltzfus
73
8. Gender and Aging: Male or FemaleWhat Difference Does it Make?
Kate Funk Wiebe
84
9. The Church Is Not Noah's Ark: Singleness in the Church
Miles Zimmerly Wiederkehr
96
10. Mothering and Fathering: The Change in Us
Wes Bergen and Carrol Penner
107
11. Raising Nonsexist Children
Atlee Beechy
118
12. Youth and Gender Relationships
Joan Yoder
130
13. Gender in the Church
Frances Hiebert
140
The Editor
152
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Foreword
The women's concerns Committees (Canada and U.S.) of Mennonite Central Committee have had a long-standing commitment to work on issues of abuse in the church and in Christian families.
We have produced packets of helpful material: "Broken Boundaries," on child sexual abuse; "Crossing the Boundaries," on pastoral and professional sexual abuse; and a "Purple Packet," on spouse abuse.
More recently, we've published a booklet that addresses the needs of family members of both the survivors and the perpetrators of sexual abuse: Expanding the Circle of Caring. Another booklet of worship resources assists congregations in breaking the silence surrounding abuse: Lord, Hear Our Prayers.*
All these resources briefly deal with abuse prevention. But their primary focus is on what to do after abuse has occurred. Recently we at MCC Women's Concerns evaluated our work on issues of abuse.
In the context of that evaluation, we heard a strong call to explore ways in which our beliefs about God and our
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