Kay Smith: Mother of the Jesus Movement
In early 2023, the box office hit Jesus Revolution told the story of the Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The stories
March 6, 2024
Topic: Church History
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Book Review: Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History
Women in the Mission of the Church provides examples from each period of history, from the early church in Acts and the Epistles in which
December 11, 2023
Becoming Egalitarian: Reconciling Experience with Scripture
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2023 Writing Contest Winner! Sometimes I Can’t Believe… I was raised in a patriarchal home, and by adulthood I
November 1, 2023
Book Review: Voices Long Silenced: Women Biblical Interpreters through the Centuries
Though my bookcase is lined with collections highlighting women leaders, interpreters, and scholars from ancient Israel through to the 21st century, I had yet to
October 31, 2023
“Let us not spend our time in trifling”: Susanna Wesley, a Mother to Her Sons
In late Spring of 1725, Susanna Wesley (1669–1742) wrote a letter to her second oldest son John, whom she called Jacky. After noting some particular
October 31, 2023
The Biblewomen of South India: A Professional Pathway to Dignity and Empowerment
Among the many motifs that decorate the tapestry of colonial India (1858–1947), the “Biblewomen” movement in Northern Circars1 was a direct outcome of the missionary
October 31, 2023
The Kandake: A Missing History
Download a PDF version of this article. Without question, one casualty of Western biblical scholarship has been the Kandake (Queen of Ethiopia, pronounced Kan-dák-e, often
October 31, 2023
The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and Women in Leadership
Download a PDF version of this article. Oral history is crucial. Listening to several women working at CBE’s offices opened a universe of insight on
October 31, 2023
Georgina Gollock (1861–1940) and World Christianity
Georgina Gollock was a key figure in the development of what came to be termed “World Christianity,” a description that has come to denote the
October 31, 2023
Difficult Passages in the New Testament and How to Understand Them
Download a PDF. Whenever the subject of the biblical equality of women and men arises, certain difficult passages in the New Testament are brought up.
October 5, 2023