My quest

Lately I have been questioning what it means to be a woman in the world of Christianity today. For most of my life, I have rarely questioned the reality of my gender. That is not to say that I do not accept nor embrace being a woman today. What I do question is how my reality differs from my fellow brother believers. I do not long for missing parts (sorry Sigmund!) but I have come to realize that my life is quite different because of the biological sex I was born into. All my life, my Christian experience has revolved around male leadership. Rarely have I experienced watching how women lead. My most crucial spiritual moments corporately have been under the tutelage of male ministers. It has been their words that inspired me to spiritual mountaintops and their words that lifted me from the valleys. Lately though, I have realized that I long for the female voice - it is like a piece of me is missing. Searching for female voice in the spiritual context has left me more than a little unfulfilled. As a young wife, I remember clearly reading Marabel Morgan's Total Woman and quickly rejecting her image of femininity. Many more like Marabel have followed. The reality of Christian women in today's world and church is that we have been taught that our voice is not important in the weightier issues of life. This is not acceptable to me. It will be my search to find and bring to this weblog some of the voices of Christian women that need to be heard today.