Helen Rhea Stumbo is not pleased with women's movements in Christianity

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /Christian Wire Service/ On Wednesday, September 21, women who represent the two polar opposites of theological, policy and social perspectives will meet in an historic face-to-face discussion over the issues that have caused a massive loss of members in the United Methodist Church, a mainline denomination that used to be one of the strongest churches in America.

The RENEW Network, a coalition of evangelical women in the United Methodist Church, asked for an Open Forum with the leaders of the Women's Division, the entity that oversees the programs and policies of the local women's organizations as well as the international publications and policies. At the 2-hour session on Wednesday, discussion will focus on 8 questions - 4 from each of the two groups - that cover the major areas of disagreement.

Mrs. Faye Short, President of RENEW and former District and Conference officer for United Methodist Women, said, "In a broken world, Christian mission without the Gospel message is like putting a small band-aid on a massive hemorrhage." Short quoted one RENEW committee member as saying "After attending several Women's Division board meetings, looking at their mission studies and Response magazine, I have yet to see evidence of the Women's Division's use of funds to fulfill the Great Commission."

Mrs. Short asks, "With 1.7 billion people in the world who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, why would evangelistic outreach be so absent from the programs and policies of the Women's Division?"

Georgia laywoman, businesswoman and chair of numerous boards, Mrs. Helen Rhea Stumbo, said, "Sadly, the Women's Division programs and policies have little relevance for mainstream Christian women today." Stumbo continued, "Local United Methodist Women have a hard time finding Jesus lifted up through the pages of Response magazine, program books, Bible studies, recommendations on the Reading Program, altered words to hymns or in presentations at national and international gatherings. Instead, they find Biblical truths and the noble causes of early Methodism hijacked by radical activism and advocacy."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/renew0919.htm

We will Expose the Assumptions at the Foundation of the Radical Feminists' Philosophy! We are especially concerned about the effects on women of contemporary cultural trends. We decry the erroneous thinking about human nature, sin and utopian expectations of society that have produced a pervasive sense of emptiness. The notion of women's autonomy -- including absolute control over our own bodies -- leaves us with an unrealistic sense of human power and an exaggerated sense of independence from the consequences of our attitudes and actions. The denial of the transcendent God who orders the universe and directs our lives leaves us with societal chaos and the absence of any objective standard of meaning. Most especially, it is the authority of the one true God, in whose image male and female are made, that insures the dignity and equality of women and men.

Helen Rhea Stumbo, signer

http://www.vow.org/ecumenical_connections/ird/xxxxxxx-ird-christian_women's_declaration.html

[niyad]

1. and we should care what she thinks, WHY??

[Bluebear]

Because she was a prominent figure in 1950's America?

Oh, sorry, this article is from today. :crazy:

[niyad]

3. googled her and found this:

Helen Rhea Stumbo (she goes by Helen Rhea, not just Helen) and Susan Swift are two Southern ladies who have been in merchandising for decades. They attend nearly every gift show in the free world and search out every great Southern artist from Texas to Virginia in order to find the very best products that reflect the Southern lifestyle they love and cherish so much.

[Bluebear]

5. Well hush my mouth. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. "Women's Division": Looks like they've bought into ghettoizing women.

[Tsiyu]

4. How hilarious

as if we can be stuffed back into THAT box!

Here's a clue: I don't need any gawd to have dignity:

Decent people will have respect for me as a woman.
Scumbags won't.
How nice that I have a way to tell the difference!

As far as equality:

Fair laws that are enforced rather than ridiculed and ignored will insure my standing under the law.

According to her bible, I can be bought and discarded like a mule. How's that for dignity and equality?