Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Summer 2021
The print + digital magazine of CBE International
Mutuality offers articles from diverse writers who share egalitarian theology and explore its intersection with everyday life.
Blog + Magazine ArticlesThe 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.
Summer 2021
Volume: 28 | Number: 2
Learning Lament, Building Empathy, and Joining our Sisters at the Intersection of Race and Gender
The authors in this issue are women from different ethnic and racial backgrounds. Each article grapples with racial and ethnic inequality in the Christian egalitarian movement in its own way. Each offers us a path toward living out CBE’s mission in its fullest, most complete expression.
Contents
Galatians 3:28 offers a vision of a community that models intersectional mutuality in Christ, where an enslaved Gentile woman and a free Jewish man were considered one and shared full authority in the community of believers.
Lament can offer us a way to enter into and face the painful histories of racism and sexism.
The spiritual practice of lament can offer us the path to full liberation from interlocking oppressions.
The story of one historical woman can offer a glimpse of how Christian expectations on women varied based on their race.
We bring our brokenness to God through prayer.
The story of Ruth can offer us a way forward into God’s redemptive loving-kindness.
As we follow Jesus, let us also expose and challenge the logic of patriarchy. May we lament the church’s complicity with dominance, and may we pursue authentic peace, humbly and persistently as Christ did.
