Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Winter 2009
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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Winter 2009
Volume: 16 | Number: 4
Leadership Development
This issue of Mutuality focuses on developing godly leaders without discriminating based on gender, ethnicity, or class.
Contents
Being familiar with the long debate over the meaning of the word “head” (kephale), I listened carefully for his definition, especially when he reached verse 23: “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.”
Women in ministry leadership face unique challenges as they seek to follow their calling in a world that often discourages and discriminates. Here ten women leaders share experiences, wisdom, and hope as they respond to these common obstacles.
When it comes to leadership, the assumptions we make and the stereotypes we unwittingly fail to challenge can have much more far-reaching consequences.
Esther shows us that leadership is responsiveness to God and to those who are hurting. It is a readiness to self-sacrifice, and it has everything to do with character, intimacy with God, and closeness to those who are vulnerable.
The gender equity component of the community’s development efforts came up repeatedly in my interviews and conversations. “Could it be possible,” I began to think, “that by modeling and empowering a community of equity, justice, and liberating education, such practice becomes modeled and reproduced continually?”
“If Jesus were really counter-cultural, why didn’t he choose any Gentiles to be his apostles?” or “Why didn’t he choose any slaves as apostles?”
Defying human expectations, God’s power is evident in people we might consider ordinary. Consider the stuttering Moses, the elderly Sara, the young Virgin Mary, the impetuous Peter, or the slaves Andronicus and Junia.
