What are women's roles in the church?
This question has been asked for centuries. What does the Bible say about women's roles? How does Jesus treat women in the Bible?
Tanya, as a woman who grew up in the church, knows what it's like to feel unseen and not valued. As a lawyer and theologian, she helps women understand how God sees and values women, and gives women value throughout Scripture, so that women can live in the freedom of God's everlasting love.
To enlighten, empower, and equip women, attorney and theologian Tanya Hendrix has blended her faith, legal experiences, and work with abused and trafficked women to write, Equal Protection Under God: Gender equality and women’s roles in the church.
Why can't a woman be a church leader?
This was a question I was confronted with early in life. Why can't women lead?
Equal Protection Under God: Gender equality and women's roles in the church is a culmination of Tanya's research while earning her Masters of Divinity and her life experiences as an attorney and working with women who were abused, sexually assaulted, and trafficked.
What is in the book?
Brief review of the chapters.
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Stigma of Inferiority
The stigma of inferiority women live with.
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The Woman
Eve, Paul, Lydia and Phoebe.
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Sexual and Physical Abuse
The rape of Dinah and her silence is deafening.
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Submissive Majority
Deborah, Jesus' mother Mary, Proverbs 31, the women at the tomb, and Jesus.
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Equal Protection Under the Law
What does the US Constitution and US Supreme Court say about gender equality and the value of women?
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Jesus
The women in Jesus' life and ministry.
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Feminism
Is this a dirty word?
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Culture
Does the culture in which the Biblical writers lived matter?
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Courage to be Defiant to Man but Obedient to God
Righteousness and justice and some fierce women who were courageously obedient to God, fighting for justice.
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Redemption
Redemption is found in God alone. He has redeemed the story of woman.
About Tanya
Tanya is an author, attorney, and speaker. Born in Fairhope, Alabama, she holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Alabama School of Law (2001) and Master of Divinity from Regent University (2015). Tanya has been a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, family law attorney, and currently focuses her legal practice on estate planning, probate, trademarks, and copyrights.
Tanya has been an advocate for more than 20 years for women and children who were abused, raped, and trafficked. She has extensive experience working directly with sex trafficking victims.
Tanya is the author of Equal Protection Under God: Gender equality and women's roles in the church, and a Bible study, Seen: A study of Five Biblical women who were deceived, raped, and disregarded yet seen by God.
Tanya lives in Huntsville with her husband and dogs. She practices law at the firm she founded, Huntsville Estate Planning Lawyer, LLC.
