2 Quotes by Adrian Shirk

Religious literacy is one way out from under the thumb of fundamentalism; constructing new literacies is another.

What do you do, as a leftist feminist, in any church? You stay in a shitty place where you'll never win because the systems by which it operates are so fundamentally patriarchal that there is no way out, save a revolution...So what do women do? They break away and make their own church. That happens. Or they stay and wait for eternity in faith that things will change, but things really don't change, not much. Or they become secular.