And so it goes. . . As long as women are deemed less than in Church, they will be less than in society. I find excellent preachers who are men. This is a fact. Sadly, you can take the number of excellent male preachers to be something akin to, generously, 20%. 1/ https://twitter.com/ThomasReeseSJ/status/1336726588247977984

Men can only tell a part of the story of life and redemption, because they are only looking at part of that picture. They do not know what a woman sees apart from what male authors tell them through Scripture and nearly all commentaries re Scripture. 2/

Few ask for a female perspective so that they might consider a three dimensional message to be shared through preaching. Women must always be the more nimble thinkers in order to translate a male viewpoint into something relative to females. 3/

Granted we share common perspectives on some particulars, but the core of our souls are informed by our life experiences and those are very much know through gender as so much emphasis is put on that human trait. Men are not so challenged. 4/

It is beyond time for us Christians to recognize that without women preachers, we distort the value of the female. Women, who can carry within them both male and female beings, enrich the depth of preaching we can share with each other. 5/

In the Catholic tradition, clericalism will kill the Church rather than accept the reality of the value women preaching would present. So weak are the loudest of these insecure leaders, that they will invite their own end rather than acknowledge the whole value of women. End/