I was first introduced to Beth Moore when I joined the long-established Tuesday morning women’s group at my church last spring. Well, Beth Moore is doing it…and she’s reaching millions. If you’ve ever read anything I’ve written on this blog before, then you know that I think biblical literacy is pretty freaking important. We love her because she’s imperfect, but she’s doing the work anyway, and she’s out there answering the call to spread biblical literacy. We love her because we’re grateful to have access to her work, which is good stuff for beginners in Bible study. It doesn’t seem at all like an act, and that’s why it works when she does it. I generally can’t tolerate that kind of thing and I will confess that my husband and I have made more than one joke about what kind of drugs they might be slipping into her coffee, but we say these things out of playful love because Beth Moore is genuine. Whenever I sit down to one of these videos at home, I tell everyone in the living room to be quiet so I can watch Beth “ preachinating.” In these sermons, Beth’s style can get over-the-top (in my view) with melodramatic whispering or hyper-spastic energy. The damage this interpretation has done to the church over centuries is inestimable, but I digress.īeth-and I can call her Beth because we’re both from Arkansas-starts each week of her studies with an hour-long lesson. Men can learn from Beth Moore, too, but we have to say it’s only for women because–somehow–a woman teaching from Scripture is translated by a huge chunk of the Body as usurping authority from a man (selective and bad exegesis spreads like cancer…and like sin). I’m gonna write a thing about Beth Moore.įor those who are unfamiliar, Beth Moore is a petite, blonde, and Southern Baptist powerhouse who writes and teaches some of the most in-depth packaged Bible studies produced for women today. Okay, so I didn’t think I would ever actually do it, but I saw another upsetting thing on the interwebz today, and I cannot abide bullies.
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