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Exclusive Interview with Rena Pederson

From the Editor: What follows is an interview with Rena Pederson. Pederson is a world-renowned journalist and author, having interviewed such leaders as Fidel Castro, Margaret

February 25, 2015

Count the Cost

In the summer of 1998, when the Reverend Kay Ward was elected as the first female bishop in the very conservative Northern Province of the

February 2, 2015

Redemption: An Image Of Biblical Equality

This article is adapted from LaDonna Osborn’s plenary session at the 1999 CBE International Conference. I was raised all over the world. I carry a

February 2, 2015

To Sin by Silence

“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.” These words were written by a poet named Ella Wilcox around the

January 28, 2015

Still Loving, Honoring, and Growing into Freedom

It is twenty-five years since my first book, Love, Honor and Be Free, was published by Moody Press. Subtitled “A Christian Woman’s Response to Today’s

January 26, 2015

An Overview of Gendercide

“More girls are killed in this routine ‘gendercide’ in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.” —William

January 8, 2015

Why? Oh, Why Am I a Woman?

My discovery that nothing is beyond the reach of a woman whose faith and identity are in Christ I have a confession to make. I

December 29, 2014

Facing a Frozen Chaplaincy: One Ordained Southern Baptist Woman’s Dilemma

Snow covered the ground of the still sleeping German town as I trudged toward the chapel. Stepping swiftly, more from fear than from cold, I

December 22, 2014

SBC Rules Challenge Japanese Baptist Women: Women pastors and ministers express their concerns to the Southern Baptist Convention president

Following is the response of Japanese Baptist women to recent actions of the Southern Baptist Convention concerning the role of women in that denomination. It

December 19, 2014