My Story Shows There Are Still Barriers to Pastoral Ministry for Women
I seldom have time to sit down and think of the ways I am treated differently for being a woman—let alone a woman of color.
July 28, 2021
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Women Make Up a Majority of the Church—So Why Don’t We Sing More Worship Songs Written by Them?
I’m not a songwriter, but as a worship minister I respect the skill that it takes to write a good song for corporate worship: the
July 21, 2021
The Old Testament Marriage That Showed Me Equality Is God’s Design
When I planned my wedding at age twenty-one, I was dreaming of flower girls and DIY invitations, not the fine print of biblical submission. I
July 14, 2021
Women’s Equality and How Churches Respond to Abuse
In a continuation of the second conversation sponsored by CBE and our 2021 conference partners in the UK, Charles Read, priest and director of liturgy and
July 7, 2021
Dominance: Patriarchy’s Logic
Journalist Adele Stan wrote, “It’s difficult to imagine a system more patriarchal than the one on which the U.S. economy was founded…slavery. Plantation owners raped
July 5, 2021
Galatians 3:28 and Confronting the Past
In the work CBE does to advocate for women’s equality in the church, home, and in society, we often appeal to Galatians 3:28: “There is
July 5, 2021
The Gift of Lament
In A Year of Biblical Womanhood, author Rachel Held Evans describes a ceremony she created to lament and honor the often nameless women of the
July 5, 2021
Lamento y Liberación | Lament and Liberation
We carry our stories, nuestras historias, in our bodies and different bodies carry different burdens. We need to tell our stories, remember our bodies. We
July 5, 2021
How Harriet Jacobs Reclaimed the Broken Body: Black Suffering, Black Redemption
There is something about “brokenness” which allows us to open our eyes and see God’s express revelation differently. Though we frequently herald historical women and
July 5, 2021
A White Woman’s Prayer of Confession
Holy One, I come to you with shaking knees and a heavy heart. I am not a stranger to suffering, but I do not know
July 5, 2021