Officially and Formally Announcing the Freedom for Christian Women Coalition Video Channels

Edit 8Dec11

With most of the footage from the Seneca Falls 2 Convention online, I'd like to formally announce that most all of the videos are now available.  Vimeo.com hosts the complete presentations without interruption, and both YouTube and Tangle feature shorter videos and topical clips from the conference.  Janice Levinson's presentation (co-founder of the Protective Mother's Alliance International with Lundy Bancroft) should be available by the end of the week.

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Versatile Blogging

A few days ago, I received an email from Paula Fether, honoring me with the Versatile Blogger Award. I am deeply honored that someone for whom I have so much respect thought to name me. Paula knows the Bible, loves it and does not compromise. I love her dearly.   Her blog is entitled "Words of a Fether."

In keeping with the versatile tradition, I'm to tell readers seven things about myself that you probably wouldn't know about me. I waited a few days to finish up my video editing for the Seneca Falls 2 Convention, as I could only think “VIDEO...”  All I could think about writing at the time had to do with video editing. (That strategy may have backfired, as I'm fixated on something else this morning...)

The Versatile Blogger Rules:

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Complementarianism, Spiritual Abuse and Undue Influence: How the Church has been Manipulated into Accepting the Traditions of Men

 Update 8Dec11

 Cindy's presentation at the Seneca Falls 2 Evangelical Women's Rights Convention on July 24, 2010.

Watch the video:

Complementarianism, Spiritual Abuse and Undue Influence  ~  Cynthia Kunsman from FreeCWC on Vimeo.


Note other references in this companion post.

And....

Please take time to watch Dr. Zimbardo's MIT lecture referenced in the session!

 

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Preparing the Church to Respond to Domestic Abuse

Preparing the Church to Respond to Domestic Abuse from FreeCWC on Vimeo.

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Finding Grace by the Way of Learning What Grace is Not

 What is grace and how does one find it?  We all have the sense that we have “fallen from grace,” but how can we get back to that place that we lost and that from which we feel like we’ve fallen?  What if we’ve never really known grace at all?  I find it quite easy to feel more connected to my failures and imperfections, particularly when I try to measure up to the ideal that others have created for me.  Good performance often brings good favor, but that feeling is rare and always fleeting. It never satisfies for very long.  It stops when I inevitably show my human nature and acceptance ceases, sometimes bringing the pain of rejection and disapproval.  This is not grace.  I long for unmerited favor and joy, the expression of unconditional love.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:

It is the gift of God:  Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

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A Brief Overview of the Development of Eternal Subordination of the Son Doctrine: What You Must Believe to Fully Embrace the Danvers Statement

I have stated many times that if the Council on Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) actually came right out and stated what they believed about basic doctrines, far more people would have challenged and rejected their ideas.  By making statements vague and ambiguous and by relying on linguistic boobytraps, groups like CBMW can entice a person and get them committed to the surface doctrine, and by the time they reveal the unpleasant or questionable aspects of their beliefs, people are too deeply committed to them to just walk away.  The most troubling doctrine that is foundational to CBMWs complementarian ideology is their concept of the Trinity.

But how did this concept come about?

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