Guys

Sojourner Truth, a former slave, and itinerant preacher against slavery, and for women’s rights, said, “Where did your Christ come from?...From God and a woman!  Man had nothing to do with it.”  Something to think about for all those who believe in the Incarnation and Mary the Virgin.  So why are men running institutional religions and most governments?  Why did Jesus pick twelve men?  It seems that women keep popping up, even in Jesus life, to say that they are central to what he was all about.  A woman was the first witness to the Samaritans.  Women were at the cross while men abandoned Jesus.  Women discovered the empty tomb and a woman was the first to proclaim that Jesus was risen from the dead.  Sainthood is filled with women of great accomplishments.  But men have the institutional power.  And many women seem to prefer it this way.  That is what puzzles me they most.