Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention

Repenting of Complementarianism

2010-09-08T05:44:00.000-07:00

Seneca Falls 2 video of Cindy Kunsman Repenting of complementarianism and giving a brief explanation of what it is. More videos of the event coming!

Repenting of Complementarianism from Under Much Grace on Vimeo.

We Shall See Jesus

2010-08-03T17:29:00.000-07:00

"We Shall See Jesus" Sung by Faith Family Singers at Seneca Falls 2

Freedom for Christian Women Coalition Demands Apology from CBMW

2010-07-25T16:05:00.000-07:00

FREEDOM FOR CHRISTIAN WOMEN COALITION

July 24, 2010

Dr. Randy Stinson, President
Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood
2825 Lexington Road, Box 926
Louisville, KY 40280

And

Dr. J Ligon Duncan III
Chairman of the Board of the CBMBW
First Presbyterian Church
1390 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39202

The Freedom for Christian Women Coalition met on July 24, 2010, in Orlando, Florida, and agreed and affirmed this Demand for an Apology from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood because of the concerns as listed in the following pages.

For the sake of all Christians, men and women, we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood, make a public apology for the misuse of Holy Scripture as it relates to women, and cease to publish or promote The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood.

Sincerely,

Shirley Taylor
Waneta Dawn
Cynthia Kunsman
Janice Levinson
Jocelyn Andersen

Freedom for Christian Women Coalition
DEMAND FOR AN APOLOGY FROM THE COUNCIL ON BIBLICAL MANHOOD AND BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD

At a time in our church history that the main focus should be on winning lost souls and spreading the gospel to a hurting world, we fear for the future because the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood has placed a greater priority on women’s submissive role rather than on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is with that thought in mind that we make these statements.

1. We are concerned that men are being taught that they are god-like in their relationship to women within the church and home. As the mothers, wives, and daughters of these men, it is our concern that this doctrine is setting them up for failure as Christian fathers, husbands and sons;

2. we are concerned about the sin that evangelical church leaders commit when they deny the love of Christ fully to women simply because they were born female;

3. we are concerned about the damage this causes to families when husbands and fathers are told that they have Headship over their wives and daughters;

4. we are concerned about wife abuse, girlfriend abuse, and abuse to female children that takes place in many homes where evangelical men are taught that they have earthly and spiritual authority over women;

5. we are concerned that the children who attend churches that subscribe to the principles of The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood will grow up not knowing the full redemptive power of the blood of Jesus for both men and women;

6. we are concerned for the mental and emotional development of girls and boys who attend churches that teach males have superiority over females;

7. we are concerned that men who are taught that they have Male Headship over a home and church do not feel that they are accountable for abusive attitudes and actions towards women;

8. we are concerned about the mistranslation of the scriptures by complementarian translation committees and by the false teachings propagated by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood;

9. we are concerned that pastors who teach and preach male domination/female subordination cannot relate in a loving, Christ-like manner to female members of their congregations because they have already judged them and found them lacking;

10. we are concerned that the issue of wifely submission, promoted so heavily by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, is more about power and control than about love or obeying the Word of God.

It is because of these concerns that:

1. We demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood acknowledge the harm that has been done to the church body by The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood, confess it as sin, and denounce it;

2. we demand that denominational leaders and all churches and seminaries which have adopted The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood do the same;

3. we demand a public apology from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood, and from all heads of seminaries and Bible colleges that have adopted The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood, for the inestimable damage this statement has done to all Christians whose lives have been influenced by it;

4. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood begin to promote the Biblical design of functional equality for all Christians, both men and women;

5. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood begin to speak out against pastors who continue to demean women and oppress Christians by the use of The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood;

6. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood chastise pastors who claim that abuse of women is acceptable and justified because the wife is not submitting to the husband;

7. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood make known to every boy and every girl who attend an evangelical church, that God is their head, and that authority over another human being can come only from God;

8. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood teach men that they share equally in the burden of society’s ills, and that all that is wrong with society today cannot be blamed on women;

9. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood do everything in their power to teach seminarians to show the love of Christ to both men and women;

10. we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood teach pastors to be loving towards those Christian men and women who disagree with The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood;

11. and, finally, for the sake of all Christians, men and women, we demand that the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood, make a public apology for the misuse of Holy Scripture as it relates to women, and cease to publish or promote The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood.

Shirley Taylor, bWe Baptist Women for Equality , Presented at the
Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women’s Rights Convention July 24, 2010 in Orlando, Florida

AFFIRMED BY THE FREEDOM FOR CHRISTIAN WOMEN COALITION AT THE SENECA FALLS 2 EVANGELICAL WOMENS RIGHTS CONVENTION

JULY 24, 2010 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Seneca Falls 2 Suppports Protective Parents

2010-07-05T05:05:00.000-07:00

One of the issues to be addressed at the Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention, to be held in Orlando on Saturday, July 24, is the failure of the church to respond compassionately and effectively to the needs of protective mothers due to patriarchal policies built in to the charters of many churches and denominations.

Janice Levinson, co-founder with Lundy Bancroft of the Protective Mother's Alliance International, is one of the featured speakers at the conference.

Registration for this free conference is still open. Visit http://www.senecafalls2.com/ for details and registration or call 863.662.0978 for more information

Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention Media Release

2010-07-01T17:56:00.000-07:00

For Immediate Release:

A movement among evangelical men and women has begun in favor of functional equality and freedom for Christian women. We are organizing, and we intend to keep things moving in a forward direction. This is the focus of Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women’s Rights Convention.

A few convention previews:
• A new Coalition will be announced at the Conference
• A new Publication will be announced at the Conference

It is time for evangelical women to reject unscriptural gender role restrictions which reduce them to servitude and to embrace their God-given right to serve Christ in any capacity that he chooses to call them.

It is time for Christian men and women to embrace and appreciate God-given gender differences without giving place to haughty spirits of superiority, degrading feelings of inferiority, hatred, prejudice, fear of one another’s differences, or the sinful need to either be in charge or to submit in an idolatrous manner.

Jocelyn Andersen, author of, Woman this is WAR! Gender, Slavery & the Evangelical Caste System, will be speaking at the Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women’s Rights Convention in Orlando, Florida next month along with Pastor Doug Phillips, Shirley Taylor founder of bWe Baptist Women for Equality, Waneta Dawn author of the novel Behind the Hedge and editor of Submission Tyranny Blogspot, Cynthia Kunsman, writer and consultant concerning spiritual abuse and undue influence in the modern Church, Pastor Lamar Starling, and Janice Levinson co-founder with Lundy Bancroft of the Protective Mother’s Alliance. For more information visit www.SenecaFalls2.com

Degradation of Christian Women Must Stop

2010-06-23T03:07:00.000-07:00

Our voices must be raised in concert against the continued degradation of Christian women within the church and home.

Become an advocate: Speak to your pastor, send letters and emails to Christian leaders, email, twitter, and facebook this post, blog your concerns.

Become an activist: Support with your presence and finances functions and activities that promote functional equality for Christian women within both the home and the church. Refuse to support with your presence and finances Christian functions that exclude women from leadership and promote male authority.

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Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention--Why?

2010-06-14T07:59:00.000-07:00

Equality for Christian Women: Solidarity, Community, Empowerment at the Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Right's Convention.

The purpose of the Seneca Falls 2 is to accomplish the following:

•To bring a community of individuals and groups to one table so that we can begin to discuss, determine, and deliver better ways to reach and teach the Christian Community that functional equality for women is not only in the best interest of all but a Biblical concept as well.

• To form partnerships and develop collaborative strategies that will keep us moving forward and consistently, constructively, and creatively keep the issue before the Christian community as more and more churches, groups, and individuals begin to practically implement equality for Christian women.

• To share ideas on how we can strengthen individual and group engagement, outreach, and coalition-building initiatives.

• Develop ongoing communication tools to keep the evangelical community informed and better connected to events and resources that will continue to propel the issue of equality for Christian women forward.

• To Garner more support from the Christian community at large and to pursue other resources.

For more information or the register for the conference visit: http://www.senecafalls2.com/

Seneca Falls 2 Is Not A "Women's" Conference

2010-06-14T07:41:00.000-07:00

There have been too many gender segregated conferences among Christians. It is time to come together. The historical Seneca Falls 1 is touted as being a "women's" conference, but in truth, many men supported women's rights and attended the conference along with the women. The work began at Seneca Falls 1 remains unfinished.

The Woman’s Suffrage Movement, which culminated in the 20th century, won the right to vote for all white American women. Even after the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, black women still had to fight for their right to cast a vote. Now, in the opening years of the 21st Century, for the first time in the history of the United States, the American people have broken all precedent and elected an African American to the presidency. The African American male, though still dealing with racial prejudice, appears to have finally broken free from a cruel caste system based on the color of his skin. American women also seem to have largely broken free from a caste system based on their sex—all except many Christian American women that is…of any color.

It is time for Christian men and women to embrace and appreciate God-given gender differences without giving place to haughty spirits of superiority, degrading feelings of inferiority, hatred, prejudice, fear of one another’s differences, or the sinful need to either be in charge or to submit in an idolatrous manner.

http://www.senecafalls2.com/

Seneca Falls 2 Orlando

2010-05-12T11:10:00.000-07:00

Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention is scheduled for Saturday, July 24, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. Men and women who support gender equality for Christian Women are encouraged to attend. Space is limited, so register early to ensure a seat.

See www.SenecaFalls2.com for details