Looking for role models among the spiritual leaders of history? Look to the women in their lives | Jackie Bailey
by Jackie Bailey from US news | The Guardian on (#6M7ZY)
I want a spiritual role model who would have understood how to avert a meltdown at school pickup. So who are the women spiritual leaders?
Sometimes I think the entire point of religion is to help men behave more like women.
Members of a religious community are supposed to get along with each other, even if they don't like each other. But women don't need religious rules to teach them social graces. From birth, we are socialised to prioritise the needs of the collective above our own.
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