CBE International

CBE International is dedicated to reclaiming God’s design for equal partnership between men and women. Since its founding in 1988, CBE has published egalitarian resources including two award-winning quarterly journals (Priscilla Papers and Mutuality), books, curriculum, and a blog. CBE is a 501c(3) nonprofit with supporters and ministry partners from over 100 denominations and 65 countries.

The CBE community believes that the Bible, properly interpreted, teaches the fundamental equality of men and women of all ethnic groups, all economic classes, and all age groups, based on the teachings of Scriptures such as Galatians 3:28. CBE promotes the biblical message that God calls women and men of all cultures, races, and classes to share authority equally in service and leadership in the home, church, and world. CBE’s mission is to eliminate the power imbalance between men and women resulting from theological patriarchy.

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Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 24, 2025

Mutuality Blog’s Top Ten Articles of 2025

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2025

Read Women: Staff Picks and Reading Recommendations

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | November 7, 2025

Selections from God’s Word to Women

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 18, 2025

The 2025 CBE Writing Contest Winners Are Here!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 18, 2025

Get to Know the 2025 “Let Her Lead” Conference Speakers

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 12, 2025

CBE’s 2025 Summer Reading List for Any Season!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2025

Congratulations to CBE’s 2025 EPA Award Winners

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 22, 2025

Announcing CBE’s 2025 Writing Contest—Celebrating Creativity

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 7, 2024

The 2024 CBE Writing Contest Winners Are Here!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 18, 2024

Write for Mutuality! Join the 2024 CBE Writing Contest

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 11, 2024

Celebrating Black Women Leaders in Church and Society

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 14, 2024

Twenty Centuries of Women Leaders in the Church

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 12, 2024

Book Review: Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 21, 2023

Mutuality Blog’s Top 10 Articles of 2023

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 18, 2023

Announcing the 2023 CBE Writing Contest Winners!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 20, 2023

2023 CBE Writing Contest—Write for Mutuality!

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 8, 2023

Women in Scripture and Mission: Eve

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 28, 2022

Mutuality’s Top 10 Articles of 2022

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 27, 2022

Book Review: The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 5, 2022

Announcing the 2022 CBE Writing Contest Winners!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 27, 2022

2022 CBE Writing Contest—Write for Mutuality!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2022

Speaker Highlight: Michelle T. Sanchez

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2022

Speakers Highlight: Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard

eLearning | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 22, 2022

Answers to Common Questions about Women and the Church

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 22, 2022

Women in Scripture and Mission: Susanna Wesley

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 27, 2022

Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 13, 2021

Announcing the 2021 CBE Writing Contest Winners!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 6, 2021

Mutuality Matters: How to Stay Up to Date on Egalitarian Conversations

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 25, 2021

Making Space for Women Leaders in the Church of Ireland

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 11, 2021

2021 CBE Writing Contest—Write for Mutuality!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 7, 2021

Women’s Equality and How Churches Respond to Abuse

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 30, 2021

How Can Churches Encourage Women Leaders?

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 26, 2021

What Are the Consequences of Theological Patriarchy?

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 19, 2021

Book Review: The Book of Eden, Genesis 2–3: God Didn’t Curse Eve (or Adam) or Limit Woman in Any Way

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 24, 2021

Eyes Open To Abuse: A Tool to Create a Safer Church

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 10, 2021

2021 Conference Virtual Preview Panel, Part 3

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 30, 2020

CBE International’s Favorite Books of 2020

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 19, 2020

2021 Conference Virtual Preview Panel, Part 2

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 9, 2020

Announcing the 2020 CBE Writing Contest Winners!

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 18, 2020

Interview with Kelley Nikondeha

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 14, 2020

2021 Conference Virtual Preview Panel, Part 1

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 15, 2020

2020 CBE Writing Contest—Write for Women’s Equality!

Non-English | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 30, 2019

Men, Women, and Biblical Equality

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 26, 2019

CBE International’s Favorite Books of 2019

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 18, 2019

Announcing the 2019 CBE Writing Contest Winners!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 8, 2019

Enter CBE’s Writing Contest to Get Published and Win an Amazon Gift Card!

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 9, 2019

Book Review: Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church and Ministry

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 9, 2018

15 Books on Domestic Violence for Pastors, Believers, and Survivors

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 19, 2018

15 Books for Seekers and New Egalitarians

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 18, 2018

Announcing the 2018 Writing Contest Winners!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 31, 2018

Enter the CBE Writing Contest!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 4, 2018

A Very Egalitarian Summer Reading List: 12 Books to Add to Your Pile

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2018

We Need to Read Books on Women in History

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 21, 2018

8 Books to Pick Up During (and After) Black History Month

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 18, 2017

10 Resources On Domestic Violence Christians Should Read

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 14, 2017

Announcing the CBE Writing Contest Winners!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 8, 2017

CBE Writing Contest: Write for Gender Justice

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2016

Preserving the Trinity

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2015

A Question Mark Over My Head

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 1, 2015

Biblical Gender Equality: A Summary

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2014

Missing Voices

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 1, 2014

One Image, One Purpose, One Baptism

Academic Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 31, 2013

American Baptist Policy Statement on Men and Women as Partners in Church and Society

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2013

Swimming Against the Stream: Egalitarian leaders reflect on CBE’s past, present, and future.

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2013

An Evangelical Tradition

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 1, 2013

A Biblical Tradition or a Path to Liberalism?

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2012

Male Authority in Context

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 4, 2012

Easter Has Changed Everything!

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 1, 2012

Ideas Have Consequences

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 1, 2012

Correcting Caricatures

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2011

Man, Woman, and the Triune God

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2011

The Primary Colors of Our Moral Sense

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2011

Remembering Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger

| Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 1, 2010

The Deception of Eve and the Ontology of Women

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2010

Book Review: Love & War: Finding Your Way to Something Beautiful in Your Marriage

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2007

Side by Side with Sister Joan

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2007

Side by Side Symposium: Spreading the message of biblical equality to Bangalore and beyond

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | April 30, 2004

Fashionable

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 2002

Hymns to Celebrate Women of Faith

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | January 31, 1998

Classics of Biblical Equality

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 1996

God’s All-Inclusive Family Policy: Acts 1:12-14; 2:1-4, 17-21

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 31, 1993

Servant Leadership

Book Review | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 31, 1991

Book Review: No Time for Silence: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century

Book Review | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | April 30, 1990

Book Review: Building Your Family to Last

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 31, 1988

Women’s Place in the Church as Taught in Holy Scripture

Book Review | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | April 30, 1988

Book Review: Equal to Serve: Women and Men in the Church and Home

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 1987

Early Evidence of Women Officers in the Church

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 1987

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