May 24 1999

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In addition to being director of the Ecumenical Coalition on Women and Society, you have also been part of an effort to bring renewal to the World Council of Churches.
All of us who belong to the Association for Church Renewal are members of churches that are part of the WCC, but we're all evangelical and biblically orthodox and are quite concerned about the direction that the WCC is going. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the WCC, and their literature has said, plain and simple, that they can go in one of two directions. Either they can incorporate all religions, so that Christianity be comes one of many different religions, or they can incorporate the people who have been truly marginalized—the Pentecostals, the evangelicals, the orthodox believers. The Association for Church Renewal exists to say: The latter is the path to real vitality. The WCC has declining membership and dwindling funds. Radical feminist ideologies are being pushed by the hierarchy. And at the same time, around the world—in Latin American and African and Asian churches—there's a tremendous revival going on. But the more evangelical, alive branches are not in power.

Was the Ecumenical Coalition on Women and Society formed to give a biblical response to radical feminism?
We're not out there saying that feminism itself is inherently bad; that is not our position. But the religious radical feminists go so far as to say that there are five genders, or that gender is fluid, or that you really ought to experiment with all the various types of gender. The bottom line is, our churches are being destroyed by the radical feminist ideology, which is a combination of heresy and paganism, and that is what we're trying to combat.

Since the Re-Imagining conference ...