International Women’s Day
Hunger, lack of education, violence, disease…all issues that more and more Christians are talking about, thinking about, praying about and working to do something about. More and more I’m hearing the most unlikely people addressing these issues in their churches.
This is good. I’m glad.
But more and more I’m hearing them addressed WITHOUT addressing the most important component - women. Often conversations about these problems occur in churches who are constantly calling the men to “rise up”, telling the men to be “real men” and “lead their families”. These churches have committees and organizations that talk about these world-wide problems … committees and organizations headed by men. This is a contradiction that cannot continue to be ignored.
You can do very little about health and nutrition in a developing country (in any country really) without educating and empowering the women of that society. You can do very little in the area of disease prevention if you don’t educate and empower the women. The more empowered, healthy, strong, encouraged, loved and nurtured the girls and women are, the more the society thrives. The mortality rate of a woman in child birth is very revealing about the overall “health” of the society in which she lives.
It has even been argued that the health and nurturing of women is directly linked to creation/environmental health.
This is not to say that males should be ignored. But I am making the argument that it’s very difficult to attend to issues such as hunger and disease without placing and emphasis on women. Today I would like to challenge those who have added “social issues” to their faith to consider stepping it up a notch in 2 areas - 1. the conversations they have about the issues 2. where they invest their money. Can we continue to hold “separate but equal” ideas about men and women in our faith communities and honestly say that we care about women’s health world-wide?
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