For reasons known only to God, or worse, I've read and followed Joyce Meyer for some years now.
Several years ago, she flirted with some of the fundamentalist jerks not-to-be-named, but I think someone got to her (I wrote her note expressing my disappointment), and I've seen her back away from them (not that my note made any difference).
I listen to her podcasts a couple o' times a month while walking - I always learn something. For me, she works quite well with Scripture, and the larger message, and she's hell-bent for leather, so to speak, to break the fundamentalist hold on people's minds - what with the fear and judgment that has condemned so many.
She also deals powerfully with abuse (as she was abused by her father).
At this point in time, I think she's made a decision to side-step the LGBTQ question; I can live with that.
Of course, I thought the same about Joel Osteen, until, on Piers Morgan, he inserted foot all the way down his throat.
I think the women who attend her conferences come away with a keener sense of their identity and power (much needed in the circles those women typically run in). She's knows her world, and speaks positively and powerfully to it. It's not my world, but I'm grateful for her iconoclastic ministry. I think she's clearly helping fundamentalist women find a better day.
And besides, she doesn't take crap from anyone!
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