From Letters to a Young Evangelical:
"I want to tell you something vitally important that is too often hidden from Evangelicals: Jesus was a radical feminist! Although it was common in his time to relegate women to a position inferior to men's, Jesus treated them as equals. He invited them to be students of the Torah [Old Testament], which back then was a privilege reserved for men (Matthew 10:35-42). He broke the taboo on touching women when they were menstruating (Mark 5:25-34). He was even willing to transgress ancient Jewish standards of social respectability by establishing relationships with women of questionable ethnic and moral backgrounds (John 4.1-27)."
—Tony Campolo, Letters to a Young Evangelical, 193.
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