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ISBN 13: 978-0-9794293-4-7

$19.79 / 192 Pages

Women's Issues / Religious Issues

Distributed by Ingram; Baker & Taylor

One Way Press, Publisher

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What is the book “Dethroning Male Headship” about?

It is about changing the way churches and society view women based upon the Bible.  The Bible is being used to keep women in submission to their husbands by something they call women’s “roles.” 

Of course men have “roles” also, but their roles are unlimited while women are denied positions in church that are perceived as giving women authority over men, positions such as a woman being a pastor or being a deacon.

Your book might be considered controversial among Christians.

Oh, yes, it is controversial.  The majority of evangelical Christians subscribe to the teaching that men are born having authority over women and that women who claim they are called to be ministers are stepping outside their biblical womanhood roles.

Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant group and that is the denomination I am familiar with since I was employed by Texas Baptists for almost 15 years. However, male headship teaching, also called complementarian, is predominant in many faith groups and denominations.

Why do you think your book is relevant now? 

It is 2013 and women are still being told every Sunday morning in church that they are inferior to their husbands, citing the Bible as the reason.  However, the Bible does not teach submission as a biblical commandment for the future. 

It is time women claimed their equality and it is time pastors and seminary professors teach that women are created fully equal—no buts.

What harm does it do to practice male headship?

It is a sin against God when his female creation is told that any and all males are to have authority over her.

Churches pretty up the words and say it is just the husband who has authority over his wife; however, when they deny women positions in church because she is female, you see the truth is they believe that all men have authority over all women all of the time.

What makes you think you can make a difference when others have failed?

Our voices lend weight to each other and our voices are becoming louder and will not be stilled.

Shirley Taylor 

Book Signing

May 18 2013

First Christian Church

3500 N Loop 336 W

Conroe TX  77304

11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Books: $20 cash or check

Punch and cookies

Kids welcome!

Book reading by Rev Peggy Trott and Shirley Taylor at 11:30 a.m.

Downloadable pdf Bookmarks for Dethroning Male Headship with lines for notes to ask the author.

           Shirley Taylor began her ministry for women’s equality with the words “I am fed up.” 

          While those words are not used in the book, her message speaks to those who are also ‘fed up’ with restrictions women face when they become associated with a church that teaches and practices the complementarian view of male/female relationships known as male headship. 

          Often called leadership, modern day restrictions require women to adhere to certain roles which keep them in submission to all other males in the church and in their own homes.

Biblical foundation

• Women are created equal
• Bible empowers women

Who is to blame?

• Pastors and seminary professors
• Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood
• Baptist Faith & Message 2000
• Complementarian evangelicals

Synopsis of book

• Bible dethrones male headship
• Marriage as the instrument of salvation
• Sexualization of the Triune God
• What you can do to dethrone male headship

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Shirley Taylor writes with humor

 If Adam had been a male headship kind of guy, he would have knocked that apple out of Eve’s hand and picked up a stick and killed that snake. Alas! Male headship ate the apple.

Read what Ann says about Dethroning Male Headship:

Shirley, I started reading your book as soon as it got here and I love it! I hear your voice, and your take on things make me laugh out loud!  In fact, I ordered two so that I would always have one. I have already loaned it to that young woman I told you about so that she will understand the far-reaching hand of the SBC.

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Shirley Taylor writes with passion

 We have a dark secret that we keep at home. We, too, keep women in submission.

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Shirley Taylor writes for action

At some point, women will have to decide if they want freedom or if they want to be bound by restrictions.

 Read what Greg says about Dethroning Male Headship:

Be prepared to be fired up, because Shirley hammers the message home: What we're doing in our churches and in our homes is sinful and wrong. And it has to go. 

If you believe

that women should be equal in church

JOIN US!

Do you know that in many churches, women cannot: 

• preach or pastor a church
• be a deacon
• read scripture from behind the pulpit
• teach boys as young as 9 years old if they have been baptized
• serve The Lord's Supper
• take up the offering collection
• teach a mixed class of men and women
• teach college age men in Sunday school
• pray out loud in worship service
• some churches will not allow women to sing if they turn their shoulders to look behind them.