Topics you never hear at Church

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by non sequitur

This is done out of guilt. The Church is extremely patriarchal. In the Church, women are second class citizens and everyone knows it. We still cling to the notion of a woman's place being in the home, barefoot and pregnant. When leaders extol the virtues of women in the Church, they are throwing them the proverbial bone, trying to ease their own guilt.

I think you have point there. Sometimes those "encouraging" talks come across as a little condescending.