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Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Spring 2026

The print + digital magazine of CBE International

Mutuality offers articles from diverse writers who share egalitarian theology and explore its intersection with everyday life.

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The opinions expressed in these articles are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of CBE International or its members.

Spring 2026

Volume: 33 | Number: 1

Eden Restored: The Gospel Lifts Women Up

The articles in this issue are reflections on women beyond the garden. Consider a deeper understanding of Eve’s faith beyond that fatal day; women’s divine design as imago Dei from the first moments of creation; Jesus’s reliance on and inclusion of women in his ministry, and God’s transcendence above categories of sex and gender as Savior to all humankind. Each article presents strong evidence that helps identify and reframe patriarchy as a destructive pattern introduced after the Fall, a pattern undone by Jesus and which no longer binds us.

Contents

Let Go of the Chains of Sin
By: Carrie Silveira | March 6, 2026
Why do so many insist on continuing to live according to the consequences of the Fall? Why do so many work to perpetuate sinful structures of gender hierarchy in the kingdom of God? Let us turn loose the chains of sin and live as God designed us: women and men, side by side, serving God [...]

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Eve: The First Theologian Outside the Garden
By: Jessica L.M. Jenkins | March 6, 2026
Often remembered and blamed for that fatal day in the garden, there is more to Eve than her worst moment.

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Imago Dei Women?
By: Kara Angus | March 6, 2026
Did God declare women to be imago Dei? Did God declare women good? Yes. Then we must as well.

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Review: Redeeming Eden
By: Mayzie Mayfield | March 6, 2026
Ingrid Faro’s new book, Redeeming Eden, brings some important insights to light.

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Beyond Financiers and Footwashers
By: Sarah Martin | March 6, 2026
Three New Testament Marys demonstrate God’s treatment of women as full participants and partners in the gospel.

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A Man for All People
By: Brynn Harrington | March 6, 2026
Does Jesus’s incarnation as a man exclude women?

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Easter’s New Creation: Woman’s Identity Restored
The history of Christ’s redemption of sin and conquest over patriarchy is why we find women and men leading side by side in the early church.

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