Mara

Frank quoting Steven: “clinging to the mistaken belief that our well-being is somehow in competition with that others. We are convinced that the progress of another somehow diminishes us.”

This is so, so true. It is such a strong force that it bleeds into our interpretation of the Bible. That place where God tells Eve that her desire or turning will be toward her husband contains NO competion or desiring to rule on her part. Yet men interpret it as that. And some Bible translations have even written it like that. Not because it says it but because this competing for well-being lens is so thick and so distortive in men that male Bible translators see it in the verse when it is not there.

Thank you for bringing it to the fore front. And know that us gals, even when angry at the abuses and Bible distortions of some men, are ever grateful for the men that do get it and are able to put it in these kinds of words, words that men and women can understand.

Thanks to you Amos. Have you ever read “The way church ought to be?

Frank, are both the books you mention from CBE?