“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
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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
Editor’s Reflection: Autumn 2023
In my Sunday School days, missionary stories were a regular feature. That is how I “met” the Irish missionary Amy Carmichael (1867–1951). What I remember
October 31, 2023
Is There Anything More that Can Be Said about 1 Timothy 2:8–15? “Propriety,” A Surprisingly Significant Word
Do we really need yet another article on 1 Tim 2:8–15? Is there anything left to be said about that contentious paragraph? As the writer
August 3, 2023
God as Motherly Father and Fatherly Mother
In 1998 as a seminary student, I was assigned Elizabeth Johnson’s She Who Is, which is now regarded as a classic Christian feminist theology text.1
August 3, 2023
In Spite of the Culture: A Sermon
Looking at cultural attitudes, I made a list of married women of the Bible this week and found myself surprised. Do we not all know
August 3, 2023
Caste and Gender in India: The Bakht Singh Assemblies and Egalitarianism
The position of women in India is marked by contradictions. Drawing on Hindu mythology, the mother goddess is a recurrent archetype called up in veneration
August 3, 2023