Dr. Mimi Haddad serves as president and CEO of CBE International. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Summa Cum Laude). She earned 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 in 2013. An adjunct associate professor of historical theology, Haddad has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary, Bethel University, Olivet University and for institutes and organizations worldwide. She was a founding member of the Evangelicals and Women Study Section at the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and Evangelicals for Justice. She continues to serve on the leadership of ETS’s Evangelicals and Women.
An award-winning author, Haddad has written more than one hundred fifty academic, popular, and blog articles for Ashland Theological Journal; The Campbellsville Review, Catalyst, Christian Ethics Today, Christianity Today, Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief; Her.menuetics; Sojourners; and the William Carey Development Journal, and CBE’s journal Mutuality and Priscilla Papers.
She has also contributed to over fifteen books and organizational publications including, “The Participation of Women,” with Leslie Segraves, Terrian Williams and Anne Zaki, The State of the Great Commission Report, published by the Lausanne Movement, 2024; “Crucial Conversations Between Egalitarians and Complementarians,” Need to Know, (100 Movements Publishing and Boundless Communications Inc, 2024); “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 (Wipe and Stock, 2008).
She has served as a gender and theology consultant with World Relief, World Vision International, and SASA! Faith Beyond Borders. Haddad was 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 women in history and theology, women and development, and the impact of women’s equality on human flourishing.
Mimi is host of CBE International’s Mutuality Matters podcast, “Women and Words: Why Bible Translation Matters”, and co-host of “Global Impact: Egalitarian Activism and Human Flourishing.”
Mimi and her husband, Dale, live in Minnesota.
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CBE’s 2025 International Conference Speaking Session
Does Paul Silence or Support Women’s Leadership? A Whole Bible Approach
From Genesis to Revelation, women live out their God-given identity as God’s “strong rescue,” Gen 2:18. Yet too often churches have allow three NT texts (1 Tim 2: 11–15; 1 Cor 14: 34–36; Ephesians 5:21–30) to overshadow and suppress the abundant examples of women’s creational purpose.
Not a Slippery Slope, but the Road to Flourishing
Humanitarians consistently show that advancing women’s dignity, agency and leadership is the most powerful way to up-end poverty, illiteracy, and disease. This session will consider both the biblical and humanitarian research on women’s shared leadership as essential to human flourishing.
Mimi’s Speaking Engagements and CBE-Published Resources
- Mimi Haddad, “Women in History and Theology,” January Term Course, Truett Theological Seminary, December 30– January 17, 2025.
