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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Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us About Freedom
Kelley Nikondeha serves up powerful insights from the stories of the women of Exodus, the stories of women who resisted historical and modern injustices, and her own experiences.
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For the Survival of the Church: What Our Theology Has to Do with Persecution
By investigating gender-specific religious persecution, we’ve uncovered the complex and detrimental impact that gender stereotypes and inequalities have on the stability of Christian churches.
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Prayer and Social Justice
Prayer leads Christ’s followers into the deepest places of human suffering. Here the church becomes the church militia—toppling injustice with the weapons of prayer, service, resistance, and community building.
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Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Tips for Egalitarian Marriages and Families in a Pandemic
As egalitarians, we must acknowledge the extra difficulties we are currently experiencing on top of the usual challenges of working toward mutuality in a culture which seems to assume traditional gender roles.
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Women Leaders at the Table in Early Churches
The tradition of women raising the eucharistic cup is witnessed from the late 100s to the mid-500s, including evidence from the three oldest surviving iconographic artifacts that depict early Christians in real churches.
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Examining the Twelve Biblical Pillars of Male Hierarchy
Does it really matter what the Bible says about man and woman? Jesus repeatedly affirmed the Scriptures to be God’s word. Paul affirms that all Scripture is God-breathed. The Bible is God’s perfectly holy word and has final authority on all matters, including man and woman.
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