Comments on: “God is at the Bottom of the Laundry Basket” and other Half-Truths We Tell Christian Women https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: In Which I Tell You about a Weighty Battle - Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-53920 Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:14:44 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-53920 […] Miller in his Sonship course, which I went through, one-on-one with Jack’s son Paul Miller,   describes Johnson’s […]

]]> By: My Experience of The Baptism in the Holy Spirit and Speaking in Tongues - Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-53793 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:17:17 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-53793 […] have an instinctive distaste for rules–Anita Antinomian, my friend Paul called me–and it amuses me that even in this most holy encounter, I sought to jump the queue and […]

]]> By: Andy https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18118 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:26:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18118 I’m glad you came to the conclusion you did. It seems that many Christians can only conceive of a God who can achieve one thing, one plan, one idea, concept or theology at a time, a linear God who has only one simple answer. Actually it IS simple as I think you’ve discovered, and I’m glad. Perhaps it could be described as life in all its fullness?

]]> By: Most Read Posts in 2012 on Dreaming Beneath the Spires | Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18117 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:08:40 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18117 […] A God at the Bottom of the Laundry Basket: Or, When Men Counsel Women, it Gets Ridiculous […]

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18116 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:57:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18116 In reply to Mary Perry.

I guess I fell for the sexist definition of godly Christian women’s roles when I was a young, new Christian in the US, and feel some anger at myself at how I swallowed the dominant Christian culture, without sifting through the Scriptures in the presence of Christ (a little bit like Rachel Held Evans is now doing).

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]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18114 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:08:10 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18114 Hi Cat (Gospelsunshine),

Yes, it is very sad. And it has led many women (both in and out of the church) to become neurotic, frustrated, strident and critical. Gifts not used do that. Do you know the early American feminist classic, “The Yellow Wallpaper?”

On the positive side, God is indeed sovereign to all things. I taught Bible studies for years, but in 2008
in an episode I've written about here http://dreamingbeneaththespires.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/discovering-god-in-land-of-suffering.html
I took an (involuntary) break from teaching.

And I think I developed much strength and insight and closeness to God in the land of suffering. And when I came back to writing in 2010, and teaching in 2012, I was so much better and stronger at both for the enforced break.

The average Christian woman I know has a much deeper spirituality and spiritual life than the average man I know. Maybe it's our enforced experience of silence and “the desert.”

I don't well understand what's going on. Have theories, but still pondering.

Blessings to you in your ministry!

]]> By: gospelsunshine https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18113 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:30:55 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18113 Thanks for this post Anita! It's wonderfully written and its something I have been thinking about for a while now.

I love to write, read, think and travel. But it seems that in certain Christian circles that once you are married you are meant to settle down and be chained to the kitchen while producing babies…

All of this makes me tired. I think you are right, a lot (not all) christian men have a different rule book for women – its so hard when I see gifted, intelligent women that have gifts of teaching and they arn't allowed to use them in the church. What is going on? I don't really understand.

]]> By: LA https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18112 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:08:50 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18112 Anita, I just posted some interior pix to my facebook page.

Extravagant Joy – love your last paragraph…sometimes I have to remind myself that God is always here…I don't always have to go SEEKING, sometimes I just have to be still and experience.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18111 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:41:53 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/09/god-at-the-bottom-of-the-laundry-basket-or-the-disasters-when-men-counsel-women/#comment-18111 Thanks, Rachel. My dreaminess, and so far, inability to persevere strongly in things like decluttering, losing weight or waking early are character flaws, no question:-)

LA, I used to resort to inviting people over to motivate me to clean. This summer, I don't really have the energy to do so. Maybe in the autumn, when everything is more social anyway! Your house is unbelievably cool. Do you have some inside pictures?

Thanks, Sandra. Blessings on plugging ahead with both. Developing a blog is so absorbing, isn't it?

Extravagant Joy, I love your last paragraph. I wish I had done that in the days when I went with a cup to other men's well, instead of putting myself in touch with the ocean of God within and around me.

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