All of us are gifted
Families and churches thrive when both women and men use their gifts to lead and serve.
But some of us are restricted
Right now, women aren’t free to use their leadership gifts due to...
misreading Scripture
strict gender roles
sexist religious beliefs
Christian patriarchy
CBE is dedicated to reclaiming God’s plan for equality
Equip
Making the case that women's equality is a biblical imperative that helps all people thrive
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Advocate
Collaborating with individuals and organizations to cultivate women’s leadership
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Transform
Combatting abuse and domestic violence by recovering God’s vision for relationships
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Correcting Caricatures: Women and Bible Translation
We stand united in Christ to proclaim women’s dignity and purpose through accurate Bible translations, remembering that dehumanizing ideas about people lead to dehumanizing actions.
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How Hierarchical Marriage Harms Husbands as Well as Wives
Hierarchical marriage roles often give husbands an inflated sense of power and importance, but also leave them overwhelmed and exhausted. Husbands end up carrying a burden God intends husbands and wives to share.
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Imagining Equity: The Gifts of Christian Feminist Theology
In my opinion, this book is an important contribution, for Methodists and other Wesleyans to be sure, but for other Christians as well.
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Mutual Submission Frames the Household Codes
The New Testament household codes reveal that early Christians were on the progressive edge of gender relationships in their world.
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God’s Surprising Hesed: Reading Ruth as a Palestinian Woman
The story of Ruth can offer us a way forward into God’s redemptive loving-kindness.
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Without Gender Equality, Our Gospel Has A Hole In It
Tragically, Bible-readers throughout most of church history haven't seen Jesus' call to give up power as essential to or even included in Christian faith. Nowhere has that omission been more costly than in the treatment of gender.
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