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“I got a job teaching seniors at an inner-city high school. My task is to get them ready for college. This school doesn’t have that great a track record of graduating people from high school, let alone getting them into college, so my job can be intimidating to say the least. This is the most consuming job I’ve ever had. In fact, compared to this, my position at the megachurch was a walk in the park—but I wouldn’t trade my current job for anything.”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?

“The illness of deifying the boss is the illness of those who flatter their superiors hoping to get their goodwill. They are victims of careerism and opportunism, they honor people and not God.”
― Jim Henderson, Question Mark: Why the Church Welcomes Bullies and How to Stop It

“An even more personally disturbing policy that my church’s denomination has is that the pastors cannot meet alone with a woman unless there is a third party present. While I respect the intention of the rule, it makes meeting with the guy I work with challenging at times. He’s suggested we meet at church during the worship service so we won’t be alone. Frankly, this never comes up in business and I find it demeaning—like there is something innately tempting about me just because I’m a woman. On a practical level, it continues the cycle of male leadership since it’s easier for them to get together with other men. Working with a woman adds an extra step.”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?

“Today Protestants provide their customers with over 33,800 denominational options—33and this from a movement whose founder prayed, "That they all may be one" (John 17:21). It is no wonder people question our sincerity.”
― Jim Henderson, Question Mark: Why the Church Welcomes Bullies and How to Stop It

“Barb had no desire for public ministry. My role as an evangelical pastor created untold pressure on her, and she eventually stopped attending church. She loves Jesus, but the typical church routine and mind-set made her crazy.”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?

“Our hearts, like sails on a ship, are not designed to grasp the why and the where. Our hearts are designed to do one thing—respond.”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?

“It’s like gender trumps ideas,”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?

“It is safer to be part of a twelve-step group than a church.”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?

“We pray against things but fail to protest them. This low view of systemic sin, this privileged paradigm of power, makes it easy for us to ignore the way we treat women in church.”
― Jim Henderson, The Resignation of Eve: What If Adam’s Rib Is No Longer Willing to Be the Church’s Backbone?