It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them. Research shows that the overall number of women attending church has dropped by 11 percent in the last twenty years. When female executives, entrepreneurs, academics, and creatives are told that they have to check their gifts at the church door, many turn away for good.
-- Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, p. 263
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