text:  In my conviction that the Bible supports gender equality, I worried, what will people say? How will the small but faithful community I've built respond to me challenging conventional wisdom about God and gender? I wrote it anyway, and I hit send. In the weeks that followed, there were many women who reached out to me and said for the first time they were seeing it was possible to be both faithful and feminist. There were also people who wrote me really long emails and called my work blasphemous.