Mimi Haddad

Mimi Haddad serves as president and CEO of CBE International and as an adjunct associate professor of historical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Summa Cum Laude). She holds a PhD in historical theology from the University of Durham, England. Haddad received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University 2013. She is serves in leadership with Evangelicals for Justice and is a founding member of the Evangelicals and Women Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society.

Mimi is an award-winning author and has written more than one hundred academic, popular, and blog articles. She has also contributed to over fifteen books, most recently: “Helping the Church Understand Biblical Gender Equality,” “History Matters: Evangelicals and Women,” and “Human Flourishing: Global Perspectives,” in Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives (IVP, 2021); “Ideas Have Consequences,” in Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities (CBE International, 2021); Is Women’s Equality a Biblical Ideal? with Sean Callaghan (CBE International, 2021); “Examples of Women’s Leadership in the Old Testament and Church History” in Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry, part of the Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies Series 21 (Brill NV, 2016); and Global Voices on Biblical Equality: Women and Men Ministering Together in the Church (Wipf and Stock, 2008). Haddad has also been published in journals, magazines and blogs, including Ashland Theological Journal, The Campbellsville Review, Catalyst, Christian Ethics Today, Christianity Today, Evangelical Fellowship of India, Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief, Sojourners, William Carey Development Journal, Missio Alliance, Her.meneutics, Mutuality, and Priscilla Papers.

Mimi has taught for colleges and seminaries around the world. She has served as a gender and theology consultant with World Relief, World Vision International, and SASA! Faith Beyond Borders. Haddad served as convener of the Issue Group 24 for the 2004 Lausanne III Committee for World Evangelization. Mimi writes, teaches, and speaks on matters related to development, justice, faith, and gender. Mimi and her husband, Dale, live in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) and are involved in local ministries.

Mimi is co-host of CBE International’s Mutuality Matters podcast segment, “Global Impact: Egalitarian Activism and Human Flourishing.”

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Resources By This Author

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 9, 2023

Sacred Wound, Sacred Calling: Elevating Women Survivors Worldwide

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 3, 2023

Global Impact: Religious Gatekeeping and Egalitarian Leadership with Dr. Beth Birmingham

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 27, 2023

Christian Marriages through Time: A Brief Historical Review

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 6, 2023

Global Impact: Egalitarian Leadership in Christian Humanitarian Organizations with Dr. Beth Birmingham

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 6, 2023

Global Impact: Partnering in East Africa to Bring Human Flourishing with Deborah Asio

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 19, 2022

Rediscovering the Towering Faith of Mary Magdalene

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 7, 2022

ETS and Women’s Belonging

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 2, 2022

Global Impact: Does Good Theology Reduce Gender-Based Violence? With Frankie Quirke

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 4, 2022

Global Impact: Make Churches Places of Refuge for Gender-Based Violence Survivors

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 2, 2022

Video: Women at the Margins: Leaders in Christian History

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 2, 2022

Audio: Women at the Margins: Leaders in Christian History

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 2, 2022

Audio: Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities Panel

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 2, 2022

Video: Created to Thrive: Cultivating Abuse-Free Faith Communities Panel

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 7, 2022

Global Impact: Learning to Define Belonging as a Refugee with Pauline Hassan Burkey

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 14, 2022

Gathered in Prayer, Exploring Galatians 3:28: A Peek into CBE’s 2022 International Conference

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 9, 2022

Global Impact: Joining the Fight for Freedom with guest Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener

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

Porn’s Complicity in Abuse

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 5, 2022

Global Impact: Bearing Good Fruit with Scott Arbeiter

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 8, 2022

Global Impact: Jesus as a Transformational Model for Upending Gender-Based Stereotypes and Violence

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

What Does Galatians 3:28 Actually Teach?

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 6, 2022

Global Impact: A Lifelong Call to Medical Missions with Dr. Aletta Bell

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 13, 2022

Easter’s New Creation: Woman’s Identity Restored

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 1, 2022

Global Impact: The Work of Service not Power in the Anglican Church of Kenya with Rt. Rev. Dr. Emily Onyango

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 9, 2022

International Women’s Day and CBE

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

God’s Attributes in Mothers

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 4, 2022

Global Impact: One Body, One Kingdom: Encouraging Arab Women in the Church and the Academy with Grace Al-Zoughbi

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 4, 2022

Global Impact: Healing the Outcasts: Fistula Repair in Bangladesh with Dr. Beatrice Ambauen-Berger

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 12, 2022

The Core of CBE: Galatians 3:28 in Our Past, Present, and Future

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 7, 2022

Global Impact: Advocating Hope for Evangelical Women around the World with guest Amanda Jackson

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | December 8, 2021

Come Let Us Reason Together: ETS 2021 Annual Meeting Recap

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2021

An Egalitarian Legacy: Good Activism Remembers History to Promote Progress

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 3, 2021

Global Impact: Sitting Down with Seasoned Activists Ron and Arbutus Sider

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 5, 2021

Global Impact: Public Health and Women’s Equality in the Church

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 8, 2021

Mutuality Matters: We’re Back and We Brought Friends! Meet the New Pod Team

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 22, 2021

Theology and Its Impact: CBE’s 2021 Online Conference

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2021

Correcting Caricatures: Women and Bible Translation

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 5, 2021

Dominance: Patriarchy’s Logic

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

Priscilla Speaks

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 17, 2021

It’s Time to Follow Beth Moore Out of the SBC

Book | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 10, 2021

Is Women’s Equality a Biblical Ideal?

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 11, 2021

Mutuality Matters: Special Bonus Episode! With Dr. Mimi Haddad

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

Forget 2020? Never!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 7, 2020

Crossing Age and Gender Barriers

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 4, 2020

Blessed Are the Harmonizers

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 20, 2020

Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 7, 2020

Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2020

Womanist Liberation for All

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 31, 2020

Christian and Islamic Feminists in Dialogue

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

Theology and Human Flourishing

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 29, 2020

Prayer and Social Justice

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 13, 2020

Rising Up with Christ

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 13, 2020

Setting a Movement Aflame: The Power of CBE’s Founders

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 11, 2020

CBE International and Gilbert Bilezikian

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

God’s Resurrection Power: A Review of 2019 at CBE International

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 13, 2019

Their Broken Bodies: Mary and Jesus

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 2019

CBE’s Tribute to Gretchen Gaebelein Hull (1930–2019)

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 23, 2019

Racism and Patriarchy—Twin Demons of Abuse

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2019

Humanity Flourishes When We Invest in Girls’ Education

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2019

Debunking Eros: Why Romantic Love Isn’t the Only Love Worth Having

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 7, 2019

Woman of Valor: Remembering Rachel Held Evans

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 19, 2019

Esther, the Earliest Silence Breaker

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 4, 2019

Centering Truth, Not Masculinity, in Christian Discourse

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 14, 2018

Women Church Planters: A Proud Tradition

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 14, 2018

How American Evangelicalism Has Been Weaponized Against Women

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 26, 2018

Women Builders of the Church: How Women Served Christ from the Early Church to the Modern Era (Finnish, English)

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 2, 2018

Women’s Identity is Ezer—a Strong Rescue: Genesis to Revelation (Finnish, English)

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

The Tears of Men: The Emotional Masculinity of Jesus and Saint Francis

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 23, 2018

The Character Gap Between Willow Creek and Jimmy Carter

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

Ending Abuse: 4 Steps for Churches

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

Do Gender Roles Keep Women Safe?: A Response to John Piper

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

Representation Sparks Conversations

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 16, 2018

#SilenceIsNotSpiritual: 8 Ways to Disrupt Abuse

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 6, 2017

#MeToo and #ChurchToo: The Perfect Storm

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2017

Tracking Errors in Bible Translation

Academic Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 10, 2017

Foreword to The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry

Book Review | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 10, 2017

The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2017

The Power of (More Than) Two

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 23, 2017

Women’s Leadership throughout Church History: Following the Teachings and Examples of Paul

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2017

Agents of the Gospel or Secular Feminists?

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 10, 2017

You’re Going The Wrong Way: A Response To John Piper

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 5, 2017

Biblical Equality and the Letters of Paul

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 5, 2017

Mimi Haddad on Gender Equality | Conversing with Mark Labberton

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2017

President’s Message: Equal Parenting, Healthier Children

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 28, 2016

Christ’s Hands and Feet

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2016

Women Leaders – The Good and the Bad

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 21, 2016

Rejoice With Us: God Is Making All Things New

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 2016

A Tribute to Alvera Mickelsen

Book Review | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | October 31, 2016

Book Review: A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 24, 2016

Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Power

Video | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 20, 2016

Ideas Have Consequences: Justice Begins with a Consistent Reading of Scripture

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 10, 2016

CBE Fights Gender-Based Violence At “Truth Be Told” Conference

Audio | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 17, 2016

Ideas Have Consequences: Justice Begins with a Consistent Reading of Scripture

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2016

President’s Message: Remembering Alvera Mickelsen, the People’s Theologian

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 21, 2016

Silent No More: Exposing Abuse Among Evangelicals

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 19, 2016

Tribute to Alvera Mickelsen

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2016

President’s Message: Family to Outsiders and Untouchables

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 24, 2016

Women’s History Month: Early Evangelical Women

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 17, 2016

Women’s History Month: Women in the Modern Mission Movement

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 11, 2016

Women’s History Month: Mystics and Monastics

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2016

President’s Message: The Power of Story

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 4, 2016

Women’s History Month: Early Church Women and Desert Mothers

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | January 13, 2016

Why Christian Identity Is Never Defined By Gender

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 30, 2015

Growing Conversations on Gender, Power, and Faith in 2015

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2015

Biblical Submission Begins with Submission to God’s Word

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 24, 2015

Iron Sharpens Iron At ETS 2015

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 4, 2015

Biblical Gender Equality At Campbellsville

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 14, 2015

Remembering John R. Kohlenberger III

Book | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 17, 2015

Is Gender Equality a Biblical Ideal?

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 5, 2015

Sharing Humanity, Not Neutralizing Gender

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 22, 2015

Man and Woman Together In Christ: The Inseparable Nature of Justification and New Creation

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 24, 2015

Walking Arm and Arm in Kenya

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2015

Becoming New: Man and Woman Together in Christ

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 9, 2015

International Women’s Day: Celebrating Those Who Misbehave

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 5, 2015

Be Doers of the Word

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | February 11, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey: A Trilogy of Deceit, Collusion, and Domination

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | January 31, 2015

Egalitarians: A New Path to Liberalism? Or Integral to Evangelical DNA?

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 31, 2014

In Memory of the Reverend Doctor Martha Giltinan

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | December 5, 2014

Oneness in Christ

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | November 9, 2014

On Shared Values…

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 29, 2014

Freedom in Christ

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | October 7, 2014

Abuse and the Church: Appreciating Pastors who Tackle Hard Issues

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 15, 2014

From Mourning to Dancing: Experiencing God’s Delight in South Africa

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | September 4, 2014

Single But Never Alone

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 25, 2014

What Makes You You?

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 18, 2014

Hunting Oppression and Abuse Throughout the Summer

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 11, 2014

CBE Joins the International Christian Alliance on Prostitution Conference

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | August 6, 2014

In Honor of Dr. Bill Spencer

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 30, 2014

Christian Community in South America

Academic Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 24, 2014

A Consistent Church?

Academic Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | July 24, 2014

The TNIV – What’s at Stake?

Academic Article | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 15, 2014

Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger

Video | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 9, 2014

Male and Female in Christ (Spanish)

Video | Priscilla Papers | Academic Journal | July 9, 2014

Male and Female in Christ

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | June 5, 2014

Egalitarians and Complementarians: One Gospel, Two Worldviews

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | May 15, 2014

The Bait & Switch of Complementarians

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 16, 2014

Male and Female: One Image, One Purpose

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | April 11, 2014

Oh Popularity, Thy Name is Human!

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 31, 2014

Answering the Call

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 31, 2014

To Speak or Not to Speak

Blog/Magazine Article | Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | March 28, 2014

Can’t We Just Agree to Disagree?