text: And I appreciate your parenting.   But the fact is that I have been, as most men have been, arrogant and insensitive to women.   At best we show condescension, something that can only come from a person who feels they are in a higher position.   I spent many years, happily, in a Midwestern evangelical church.    Most men still assume they are the 'anointed' head of their household.   Several believed that their religious 'insight' was reserved for a male perspective.  
  
  But there are many ways to show the Spirit in our lives and most of them have nothing to do with the complexity of language or the strength of our bodies.     Women are every bit an equal to men, and biology means nothing in death.   The church may continue to be dominated by men, but they hold no special position in the non-physical world, or in the eyes of God.  It's a church created hierarchy based on human arrogance, not God's will. 
  
  Peace, Paul