To Leave or to Stay: How Women Can Change the Church
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2021 Writing Contest Top 15 Winner! For a long time, I have wondered if a women’s church strike would
March 2, 2022
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Black Woman, What’s Your Mission? Encouragement for Everyday Egalitarians
To me feminism is not simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women will have equal rights with men;
February 23, 2022
Defy the Status Quo With Me: A Letter from Your Fellow Nonconformist
During my spring break in 2018, as a second-year student at Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity, I attended a young seminarian retreat in Fort Worth,
February 16, 2022
Elevate Their Voices: Four Books to Read This Black History Month
Black voices and experiences have historically been silenced or ignored. Even with issues relating to women, Black women are often neglected. Fortunately, we have the
February 9, 2022
Who Is Pulling Your Strings? Wisdom for Women Clergy and Leaders
There is something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.
February 2, 2022
Retreating from Retreats: An Egalitarian Vision for Church Conferences
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2021 Writing Contest Top 15 Winner! In boxes throughout my home sit the many crafts I’ve made at women’s
January 26, 2022
No Longer Male and Female: Why Do We Still Separate by Gender in Church?
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2021 Writing Contest Top 15 Winner! Several years ago, I was confronted by a male clergy person who dismissed
January 19, 2022
The Core of CBE: Galatians 3:28 in Our Past, Present, and Future
CBE was founded by three fierce women of faith—forces of nature in every sense of the phrase: God’s very own Alvera Mickelsen, Catherine Clark Kroeger,
January 12, 2022
Are We Continuing to Sideline Women in Conversations about Abuse?
I’ve been in the abuse and advocacy realm for a few years now, and I’ve recently noticed a startling trend. While we can leave toxic
January 5, 2022
Phoebe Palmer: Fountainhead of Evangelical Egalitarianism in Canada
About noon, on the Lord’s day, she was called upon, without previous notice . . . to speak to a congregation of several thousands. Curiosity
July 31, 2021