Getting Ready for LA
As CBE’s new conference coordinator, I am so excited to be planning our conference in Los Angeles. This year’s theme of “Becoming New: Man and
September 12, 2014
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Oneness in Christ
The Genesis texts offer an exquisite challenge to the historic devaluation of women. In fact, both egalitarians and complementarians agree that the early chapters of
September 11, 2014
Defining Desire: How should we understand Eve’s desire in Genesis 3:16?
In many Christian circles, women are taught that their supreme calling in life is to be a good wife, complying with a God-ordained order where
September 11, 2014
Chain of Inference: “Seeing” Male Authority as God’s Design in Genesis
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The
September 11, 2014
On Paul’s Use of Creation Narratives
Excerpted and adapted from John Jefferson Davis, “First Timothy 2:12, the Ordination of Women, and Paul’s Use of Creation Narratives,” published in Priscilla Papers 23.2
September 11, 2014
Created for Community and Mutuality
One of the trees in my backyard captures my attention. About two feet from the ground, the large trunk splits into five separate trunks. What
September 11, 2014
Editor’s Reflections | Summer 2007 (21.3)
When Aída and I were living and ministering in the center of Newark, New Jersey, first as interns in the summer of 1970 and then
September 10, 2014
New Lenses for Viewing Submission
Introduction Jesus said, “If your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light” (Matt. 6:22, Luke 11:34 RSV). Jesus also starkly commanded,
September 10, 2014
Sarah’s Submission
Introduction In chapter 3 of his first letter, Peter1 draws an analogy between Christian wives of the first century and the Old Testament matriarch Sarah.
September 10, 2014
God as Mother, Not Mother as God: A Biblical Feminist Response to the “New Feminism”
In Boston Globe Magazine (February 25, 1990), Kathleen Hirsch wrote an extended article called “Feminism’s New Face,” subtitled, “Some Feminists are discovering what they see
September 10, 2014