The Christmas season is always a sweet time of togetherness with family and friends as we celebrate Christ’s birth. Some of my favorite pastimes for Christmas include decorating, baking, and driving around looking at Christmas lights. When my small, rural town displays the Christmas decorations on light poles starting in November, I get a tinge of excitement thinking about all the festivities that are planned. When it comes to gifts, it can be difficult to find just the right present for each person, often wanting it to be something meaningful for the receiver.
This year, to make an impact in the lives of those who are dear to me and in return support a ministry that is making a worldwide impact for women to pursue their callings, I will be heading to CBE’s website for my Christmas shopping. CBE has an online bookstore full of hundreds of books by Christian authors. In addition to browsing the bookstore, I might also consider gifting a church and organization membership, ordering subscriptions to CBE’s magazine and academic journal as gifts, offering to cover a portion of a friend’s registration for CBE’s upcoming conference in Chicago, or honoring a loved one with a financial gift to CBE. I hope to not only spread holiday cheer, but also the gift of mutuality that will last long after the Christmas season.
Find Gifts Through CBE’s Online Bookstore1
For Daily Devotions
200 Devotionals from the Hebrew Bible by Hélène Dallaire
Readers of this volume–200 Devotionals from the Hebrew Bible–will find nuggets of wisdom in short devotionals written by the author and her students. The rich spiritual truths found within the devotionals are designed to provide nourishment for all believers, including academics, church leaders, congregants, students, and youth.
For the Engaged or Married Couple
A Model for Marriage: Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy by Jack O. and Judith K. Balswick
Jack and Judy Balswick offer a vision of marriage that is both profoundly spiritual and thoroughly practical. Drawing insight from Christian theology and from social science research, Jack and Judy Balswick bring together their years of teaching, writing, and being married to each other to produce a book of faith and wisdom for facing the challenge of marriage in the twenty-first century.
For the Beginner
Is Women’s Equality a Biblical Ideal? by Mimi Haddad
This five-part lecture series explores the biblical, historical, and social precedent for women’s shared leadership in the home, church, and the world. Topics include Old and New Testament evidence of women’s leadership, women’s leadership in church history, understanding power dynamics, and working cross-culturally. This lecture series and companion workbook make a wonderful resource for both personal and group study.
For Studies on Bible Women
Mary and Early Christian Women by Ally Kateusz
This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacons, presbyters/priests, and bishops. The two oldest surviving artifacts to depict people at an altar table inside a church features women and men in a gender-parallel liturgy found in two of the most important churches in Christendom—Old Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Dr. Kateusz’s research brings to light centuries of censorship, both ancient and modern, and debunks the modern imagination that from the beginning only men were apostles and clergy.
For the Biography Lover
All My Knotted-Up Life—A Memoir by Beth Moore
Beth Moore is a woman familiar to many people but truly known by only a few. In this beautifully crafted portrait of resilience, survival, and God’s enduring faithfulness, this best-selling author and popular conference speaker offers a thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into her life and ministry.
Gift a CBE Subscription
CBE boasts an online library of over 4,600 resources, which includes over 3,800 articles, most of which have appeared in our print academic journal and magazine, Priscilla Papers and Mutuality. While it’s great to have everything accessible online, nothing compares to having the printed version right in front of you, for you to pick up and read wherever you are. Better yet, when you are done reading through an issue of Mutuality or Priscilla Papers, you can hand it off to someone else who may need the resource, further spreading the mission of CBE. You can order a CBE subscription for yourself and gift subscriptions to others you know. With an annual CBE subscription, you or a loved one will receive four new issues of Mutuality and four new issues of Priscilla Papers, spreading your gift of mutuality throughout the whole year.
Gift a CBE Church and Organizational Membership
Does your church need egalitarian resources to further enhance your affirmation on women in leadership? A CBE membership not only puts resources in the hands of people at your church or organization; it also provides other benefits, such as a conference discount, promotional messaging on select levels, advertising discounts, and more! A CBE membership could transform your church or organization, so consider gifting a membership to gain access to resources and benefits that will encourage women and men in your community.
Gift Someone Special with a CBE Conference
CBE Conferences are a great time to connect, network, and learn from experts in various fields. With registration opening January 1, 2026, now is a great time to think about who you would like to invite to CBE’s next conference in Chicago—Made Whole: Healing the Body of Christ—August 7–9, 2026. As a mom of three boys, I particularly enjoy providing gifts that offer an experience for the whole family to enjoy together. You could do the same for someone you know, whether your pastor, friend, spouse, or family member. Gifting the cost of a CBE conference registration is a sure way to help spread the message of mutuality. Another added benefit is that groups, when signed up together, receive a discounted rate to attend.
Give the Gift of a CBE Conference! Registration opens January 1, 2026.
Honor Someone Through CBE
Christmas is also a great time to honor someone in your life with a financial gift to CBE; someone who was an encouragement to you in your faith and understanding of mutuality. The person who comes to mind for me is my grandmother, Marlene Wieczorek (1936–2006). A woman ahead of her time, she was fierce, bold, and loved God with an enduring faith that radiated to everyone she knew. She held leadership in her church leading Sunday school, playing the organ, and ministering to women. It was rare to not see her upfront in church on Sunday mornings. During a time when many women didn’t work outside of the home, my grandmother worked alongside my grandfather for twenty-five years as a milk tester for local farms in East Central Minnesota. To this day, there are still local farmers who remember her, often reminiscing about the chocolate chip cookies she would give the family farmers on a regular basis. Whether it was within her home, church, or community, my grandmother was a leader who exemplified the mission and values of CBE. We don’t know if she was familiar with CBE CBE. It was ten years after her death when I found CBE myself, but if she had known about CBE, I have no doubt she would have supported its mission.
Maybe there is a person, past or present, who embodied mutuality in a meaningful way that you would like to recognize them. Consider giving a gift in honor of them to CBE before December 31.
Spread Egalitarian Cheer This Holiday Season
This Christmas let’s take the opportunity to make an impact on the lives of those we love alongside the ministry of CBE. Every one of the opportunities above supports CBE’s outreach and further expands its reach to those who need the message of mutuality. As you scour the shops and online stores for gifts this Christmas season, consider giving a gift that will make an impact far greater than you realize or could imagine: a gift from CBE.
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