Growing up, Beth Moore was taught that 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 were the whole of what Scripture had to say about women. And as a celebrated bible teacher and the founder of Living Proof Ministries, her objection is not to those passages—she says she has never resented them—but to a hermeneutic that stops with those passages, leaving Luke 8, the resurrection witnesses, and Paul’s named co-workers at the close of Romans untouched.
In this episode, Mark Labberton revisits his 2018 conversation with Beth Moore, sharing it again at a moment when debates over women in leadership—and whether women are free to use their full gifts in the full service of the church—are once more roiling the American church. It is an invitation to hear the journey Moore has taken—from keeping every rule to discovering that not everyone was doing the same. It’s an episode about what it means to receive women as teachers and instructors of scripture for the building up of the church—and about the faithfulness of God to one woman’s story, as she tries simply to be heard.
