Sandra Glahn, PhD
@sandraglahn
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(Glawn) Pres. of EPA—Xian media org, DTS prof, author, journalist; interests: art, lit, writing, NT bkgds, gender (ThM, DTS; PhD Aesthetics, UTD). Views mine.
Texas
Joined May 2010
Here it is: the announcement I promised! 🙌🙌🙌.
New Contract Alert 🚨 'Nobody's Mother' author @sandraglahn Signs Two-Book Contract with IVP Academic. 'A Woman's Place Is in the Story' coming Spring 2026!. Learn more:
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If you don’t know much about the legacy of RBG, here’s a primer. The Supremes did not get their first woman til I had been married nearly two years. This is the world in which I developed as a woman:
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I just watched a religious-freedom training session for journalists led by a Christian woman whose family fled the Iranian revolution when she was a child. When asked what she considers the number-one threat to religious freedom in the USA, she said this: Christian nationalism.
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“Colorado pastor Bob Bender asked from the floor… ‘What does it say when we’re slow on the take on sexual abuse of women but quick on the draw to disqualify them from non-lead pastor roles?’” #SBC .
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No, Nathan, don’t you dare tell King David he was wrong to violate Bathsheba. That would be liberal. We don’t need a Sunday school teacher in office. This king has already been so criticized. Remember the options? Saul was worse.
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COVID day 70: Today I tasted coffee again. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️. 💥🥲🙌.
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I spoke in chapel last week. One of my male students who lives a far drive was there. When I made a point to thank him for showing up, he said, “I figured there was probably some guy who refused to attend because you were speaking, so I wanted to be sure to fill his seat.” ❤️.
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Madeleine L'Engle: We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe…but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.
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Student body @DallasSeminary is 37% female. Incoming class is 46% women. Welcoming them with open arms! 🙌🎶🙌🎶🙌.
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Hulu’s “God Forbid” is sickening. Falwell. Greed. Adultery. Christian nationalism. Media. Intimidation. Lies. Abuse of power. All well documented. The problem is not with the documentary….
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The US is not New Jerusalem. Plus that city’s wall has 12 gates (Rev 21:12) and they are never shut. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.” (vv 25-26). 🙌🎶🎉💃🥂🙏❤️.
Evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress defends Trump's border wall: "Heaven itself is going to have a wall around it"
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That’s my mama holding my hand. She has been a gift to the world for 92 years. A righteous woman. Antiochian Orthodox. Today she met her reward. Rest In Peace, beloved mother and sister and child of God.
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If you endorse a book, it is your responsibility actually to know what it says and vet it for your readers. To do otherwise is irresponsible. Esp if you have the title of shepherd of the sheep. That is kind of the point of being a shepherd.
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If all goes as planned, in the next 48 hours, I will get to hug my dear 91-year-old mom for the first time in nearly 2 years. 🙌🙌🙌.
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I can memorize the entire NT and quote a Bible verse for every occasion, but if I have not love, I am like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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“You interpret the Bible differently than I do. So you must not believe in inerrancy.” One way toward a more unified church is recognizing the lie in this statement.
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Just signed a contract with Lifeway to contribute notes on Song of Songs for the CSB Women's Study Bible.
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Recently I got notified I’ll receive grant $ to create a free photo library of women in public ministry in the visual record of the early church. Esp in Rome & Ravenna—like this depiction of Praxedes (l., commended by Paul) and Pudensiana (r., by Peter) in Rome's mosaics. 🙌🙌
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Today for the first time in 67 days, I was able to really smell something. Tomato sauce never smelled so wonderful! 🙌🙌🙌😭😭😭.
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Guess who just signed a contract with @ivpacademic for my work on Artemis, Ephesus, and 1 Timothy? You can read a summary here. .@ivpress, @formatio, @ivpkids.
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From final blog post by #RHE: (Ash Wednesday):. ‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.’.Death is a part of life. My prayer for you this season is that you make time to celebrate that reality, and to grieve that reality, and that you will know you are not alone.
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Rick Warren: It’s no accident that the same voices that said “We can’t protect women from abuse, because of the autonomy of the local church” are the same voices saying, “We can prevent them from being called pastors in the autonomy of the local church.”.
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Some believe a Deborah arises only when good men can’t be found. I disagree. But I also think if good men take a weak or no stand against all forms of domestic abuse, they should expect to see many Deborahs arise.
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This grant was for $3000. 👇Today I got notified that in partnership with colleagues from Northern and Wheaton, we have received another grant to build on this work. Awarded ~$50K!.
Recently I got notified I’ll receive grant $ to create a free photo library of women in public ministry in the visual record of the early church. Esp in Rome & Ravenna—like this depiction of Praxedes (l., commended by Paul) and Pudensiana (r., by Peter) in Rome's mosaics. 🙌🙌
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Maasai and Pokot Christians taught me that shepherding is one of the lowest jobs, given to a girl unless there are no daughters, in which case care for smelly critters falls to the youngest son (like David). I need to change my nativity-scene art to add children. Girls.
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I got a big fat royalty check today for 82 cents. Woohoo! Living the #writer’s high life. 😉.
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I have noticed a lot of Xian leaders on social media pairing wifely submission with male leadership. But in Eph 5, the counterpart to “submit” is not leadership but “agape love.” “Head” in Paul’s analogy is paired with “body,” not “submit.” #metaphorofonenessnotpower.
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Happy new year! Our daughter got engaged at midnight! Love the guy. 💥🎉👏.
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When I had COVID and struggled to breathe for more than a month, I wondered if I would ever again hike up this path. Today I did it! 🙌🙌🙌
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Abortion is evil. Shooting children is evil. Putting them in cages is evil. Having a separate justice standard for brown bodies is evil. People are made in God’s image, so it is wrong to murder or torture them or treat them unjustly.
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Jesus was the descendant of sexually exploited women, narrowly survived a child homicide, and grew up to be the world’s most prominent defender of children. Jesus reserved his harshest words for those who abused or neglected children. —Wipf & Stock.
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Tonight a 5-month rift in an important relationship in my extended family was mended with forgiveness and reconciliation. 🙏❤️🙌.
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@bethallisonbarr So they will not disfellowship a church for abiding a pedophile senior pastor because church autonomy, but when it comes to a woman worship pastor or a pastor to women, they override autonomy because disunity?.
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Serious question: if all 3 branches of govt were dominated by the right, why were pro-life laws and policies not overwhelmingly passed? Would doing so ultimately lose them political power— if the right no longer had that issue as a rallying cry? Are pro-lifers being played?.
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One in six American women has been raped or faced an attempted rape. But less than 0.5% of perpetrators will go to jail. The law continues to victim blame and fails to protect women. If this is not evidence of systemic sexism, I don’t know what is.
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My daughter just got her first real paycheck. 20 min later she came to ask me which necklace of 2 possibilities I want from her for Mother’s Day. 😭😭😭.
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“The Church is uncommonly vocal about the subject of bedrooms and so singularly silent on the subject of board rooms.” —Dorothy L. Sayers, 1940.
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Would you please pray for one of my female students who needs about $1800 to pay a seminary tuition bill to proceed with a summer class? She’s working her tail off in two jobs and excelling at her studies. I’d love for her to know of your support.
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Watched “Shiny Happy People” on Amazon Prime. An important, sobering historical look at white (I never saw ppl of color at the 3+ conferences I attended) US evangelical history and links between absolute authority and abuse.
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Shout out to @BethMooreLPM @MaryDeMuth @KSPrior @KelseyHency all mentioned in this article by @kateshellnutt for using your cred to speak TRUTH to the church: Women Are the Talk of 2018’s Southern Baptist Annual Meeting via @CTmagazine.
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Let’s say it together: “I wholeheartedly, full stop, without a single reservation condemn white nationalism.” Period. The end. End of story. Amen and amen.
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My friend in Kiev went silent 3/4. Today I heard from her! 💜🙏💔
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My mother-in-law is probably in her last hours. A life well lived and ready to meet her Maker. Her sons are on their way from Africa. Prayers for our family appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏.
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I disagree emphatically. If the #judge is innocent, he must be exonerated. If guilty, not accuse his victim—but own his sin and beg forgiveness. Jesus cares for victim and victimizer. He does not say time heals all evil. Or that evil does not matter. Or boys will be boys.
Franklin Graham on Judge #Kavanaugh Accusation: 'Not Relevant'
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Lost a former student to COVID-19. 💔 Such a great guy who leaves behind a heartbroken family. Death, be not proud. your day is coming.
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My book got a starred review in PW— a big deal! (Reviewer’s summary isn’t exactly what I argue, but great to get the positive press.)
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1887 Harper’s Bazaar lithograph. “The women. ” Gifted to me by my husband as a daily reminder of the identity of the primary witnesses of the birth, death, resurrection.
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Boaz to Ruth: Take note of the field where the men are harvesting & follow with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. (Ruth 2:9). Jesus to men re woman w/ alabaster jar: Leave her alone. She has done a beautiful thing to me. (Mark 4:16).
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Francis Collins just recited The Sermon on the Mount as part of his #Templeton acceptance speech—after sharing his journey from atheism to faith in Jesus Christ. So powerful. Calling us to love.
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Jesus redefined motherhood: “Who is my mother? The one who does the will of God.” Happy M-Day to everybody seeking to do love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control.
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@MADDOG494 @Judgedrift @ABC So are u saying we have laws to prevent ppl from wrongly destroying guns, just no way to prevent them from wrongly destroying other humans?.
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Pentecost Sunday: “Your sons and daughters will prophesy” and “even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit. ” Acts 2:17-18.
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Did u know? The Assemblies of God (AG) has ordained, on avg., more than 5 women/wk for the past 14 years. Total # of ordained women in the denom.: 10,383 (27%). Women have been preaching/teaching in the AG since it’s founding in 1914. —CT.
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145 million Americans voted in a pandemic. That is worth celebrating.
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@ElizabethOstli1 @jaysonyork @ohrwurm_AT Thank you. God confronts both Ananias and Saphira (Acts 5:9); both Ahab and Jezebel (2 Kings 9:10); both Adam and Eve (Gen 3:13). But only David, not Bathsheba.
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Dear suffragettes. I’m choosing to be grateful I just got a #jury summons as I remind myself that when my grandmother was born, women were denied that privilege.
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I read about a church that is delaying Easter tIl this all blows over. But celebrating the “already” in the “not yet” is actually quite well suited to prisons and catacombs and quarantines.
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Just finished @BethMooreLPM All My Knotted Up Life. Listened on audio as the author read it —which I highly recommend. Brilliant. Wise. Raw. Witty. Honest. Riveting. Heartbreaking. Inspiring. Devastating. True. Superb storytelling. Must have sucked to live it.
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Last weekend a lot of people trashed Bathsheba. This weekend many of the same people are mean-spirited in describing Beth Moore and #MeToo .
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Name the first rabbi to welcome a female student eager to learn theology.
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Lost an old college friend to COVID this weekend. He was doing such good in the world. 😢🙏.
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@ndrew_lawrence Interesting. Among the ppl in E Africa w/ whom we work, it usually means her husband is proud of her, her family gets to eat meat sometimes, her kids get to go to school, and they all have needed hygiene supplies. See Luke 8:3 and Prov 31:23, 28.
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A reminder from the church’s visual record that “shepherd” is a metaphor the church has long used for women in leadership.
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Great convo today with @mbird12 @aimeebyrdPYW @kkdumez @bethallisonbarr + Zondervan moderator. Also @scotmcknight was in the house and got a nice shoutout.
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@BethMooreLPM I can see it now…. There’s Jelly in John’s Gospel: A Marriage Primer by Beth Moore.
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Both my husband and his brother arrived safe and sound from Africa in time to tell their mother goodbye. Thanks be to God.
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Bible verses that will never appear on a calendar or embroidered pillow? Go.
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Some of you asked for my thoughts on this subject. So here you go. Story told with enthusiastic permission of.
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All the instructions in the Scriptures about tabernacle and temple suggest that place and beauty actually do matter. The stones of remembrance. Physicality. We are not Gnostics.
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The Book of Job: Sometimes even faithful people lose everything, through no fault of their own. The righteous suffer. People can work hard and please God—and still have nothing materially. #prosperitygospelisheresy #Whitelies.
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Today I felt grateful to worship in a church that did not confuse raising voices to the God of all nations with celebrating American religious nationalism.
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Our daughter is on the autism spectrum. Tho “Asperger’s” is no longer considered the PC label and ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) is considered correct, she prefers “Aspie” to a label with “disorder” in it. Can’t say I blame her.
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People giving a pass on the choices of a hetero man on this third marriage and accused of sex w a porn star + sexual harassment by 19 women are saying a man in a monogamous gay marriage is a threat to morality because his example would normalize aberrant sexual ethics.
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This morning I gathered with a group deeply divided by he said/she said, by class, by views of gender, by opinions about how to rid our land of abortion. And together we set aside those differences to praise the one who paid our debt and raised our lives up from the dead. 🙌🙌.
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If someone makes a strong exegetical biblical case for something ppl have never heard and said ppl argue back with “I’ve never read that in my commentaries,” said ppl cannot then truthfully claim that they ground all their arguments only in scripture. #bathsheba.
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I would just like to point out that @KaitlynSchiess @DallasSeminary student wrote this. Oh yes she did.
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@KelleyMMathews @Josh_Bleeker @ostrachan Plus, “Act like men” here does not mean “Act less feminine.” The contrast is not man/woman but man/child. He means “grow up. Act like adults, not children.” See similar Pauline contrast in 1 Cor 13: “When I became a man, I put away childish things.”.
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New Zealand’s Parliament unanimously approved a bill that would give mothers & their partner 3 days of pd leave after suffering a miscarriage or stillbirth. It's one of the first countries in the world to provide this type of leave.
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My nephew’s bone marrow transplant was canceled the third time because too much leukemia in his bones. This means the end of conventional treatment. Clinical trials. Plz pray for him and our family. 💔.
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@MargMowczko Usurping the older women’s call to do so (Titus 2:4) & communicated using a visual in which all women have uniformly skinny waists and arms but “buxom” breasts. I’d think “parody” if I didn’t know better. Young women R leaving church faster than any demographic. Here’s a reason.
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Stolen from FB: ruin a band name by changing only one letter. I’ll start: The Beagles. Guns and Hoses. Whatcha got?.
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A male pastor (who lives 1,000 mi away) and I were talking about how a lot of online services have had all-male visuals. So he asked for a little help. #RepresentationMatters
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"There is no early Christian art where only men are depicted at the church altar." #mutuality
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Reply from the pastor of a Reformed church in Danville VA. It would be nice if we could talk about the Bible while simultaneously demonstrating the fruit of the Spirit.
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