The Jesus Movement and the Issues of Masculinity

There's this very deep temptation that we all suffer across the political spectrum today to impose our current political ideals on Jesus and his movement. We often forget how much our politics today are shaped by things like the enlightenment, make the French Revolution. These are 2000 years before these things even happen is what we're dealing with in first century Palestine. And so we should always be very skeptical of any impulse to try to impose any sort of modern political ideal on Jesus or his movement. But one thing you do talk about that I found very interesting, especially in light of certain political topics today, is that there were certain accusations of them being a feminist. This of course is a very patriarchal time as of