Why Are We Teaching Girls to Hate Their Bodies?
Editor’s Note: This is one of our Top 20 winners from the 2018 CBE Writing Contest AND an Evangelical Press Association award winning article! In May of
December 27, 2018
Topic: Parenting / Youth
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
As I begin this review, I need to acknowledge that I was a teenager in the evangelical church as so-called “purity culture”—a term that refers
November 19, 2018
How the System is Rigged against Latinas and What the Church Can Do to Help
As a child growing up in a poor immigrant community, my dreams were limited by what I saw around me. We were survivors, but we
November 13, 2018
The Challenges of Fatherhood: A Biblical View (Finnish, English)
2018 “Created for Partnership” CBE International Conference Fatherhood is a sensitive issue for many Finns. How do we brake free from burdens and enjoy fatherhood?
October 26, 2018
“If You Teach the Mama, the Whole Family Will Learn” (Finnish, English)
2018 “Created for Partnership” CBE International Conference Economically, teaching girls has the most significant impact of development funds, as seen in education and health outcomes.
October 26, 2018
Growing Pains: How Complementarianism Shames Boys and Isolates Men
With vivid emotional clarity, I can remember standing helplessly before the chalkboard, crying in front the entire fourth grade class as I struggled to overcome
September 5, 2018
A Father’s Reflection: Teaching My Son Vulnerability through My Struggle with Depression
Four years ago, I was diagnosed with depression. It was scary. I had no safe place, no castle to retreat to and regroup. That’s the
September 5, 2018
When Gender Roles Don’t Work: How One Couple and Their Sons Became Egalitarians
We asked Jodi and Dave Hansen (Dave is a CBE board member) to reflect on their journey raising two sons, defying role expectations, and discovering
September 5, 2018
Give Them Words: Helping Boys Name and Navigate Their Emotions
I’ll never forget the moment I found out that I was having a boy. This was my first child, and, I must admit, I had
September 5, 2018
Raising Emotional Boys in a “Boys Don’t Cry” Culture
As a toddler, my son Jon* was politely referred to as “a handful.” There was no door he couldn’t open, no ladder he couldn’t climb,
September 5, 2018
