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This workshop defines various types of feminism and analyzes their similarities and differences.

Black History in the Early Church, Part 1 and 2

How does gender breed violence, and what can we do to change this?

Cascading Presentation: Ideas Have Consequences

Some areas of sexual violence have been perpetuated by cultural practices like wife inheritance (a male relative inheriting his kinsman’s wife after he dies). While on the surface the church seemed to challenge cultural practices, this has not been the case with practices that have been sexual and which largely affect women. Wife inheritance and gender prejudice is a major contributing factor to the spread of HIV and AIDS.

When rightly understood, Gen. 2:24-25 and Eph. 5: 21-33 provide an almost formula-like description for a pleasurable, loving, faithful marriage of oneness built on equality and mutuality. Modern science teaches what the writers of Genesis and Ephesians could not have known.

Lecture from 2016 international conference "Truth Be Told" in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This lecture examines the twelve pillars most often adduced as biblical support for male hierarchy in the church and in the home. It shows that statements in the Bible adduced for this do not, in fact, support male hierarchy. To the contrary, they rather provide evidence for the equal standing and authority of man and woman. It surveys the exegetical, theological, and practical foundations for the equal standing of men and women in the church and in marriage.

Lecture from 2016 international conference "Truth Be Told" in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The book of Galatians reminds us we are called to be free, and to use that freedom to serve in love.