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Book Review: Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Brianna Cortez | March 14, 2023
Whereas most books on women in ministry primarily focus on contested Bible verses, Nijay K. Gupta’s "Tell Her Story" takes a different approach. Gupta studies women throughout the Old and New Testament first, as if to say, these are the stories we need to shape our view of women—the ones that depict what [...]
Paul’s Concern for Ephesus: A Survey of 1 Timothy 2:8–15
By: Eliza Stiles | November 3, 2022
Paul’s concern about the situation in Ephesus is not that women or men are causing problems, but that the church’s witness in the Ephesian community is at risk. In 1 Timothy 2:8–15 Paul urges Timothy to counter false teaching with prayer, humility, education, and by confronting abusive authority.
Verbal Inspiration Calls for Women Pastors
By: Bill Rudd | September 21, 2022
For Christians who believe in verbal inspiration, words matter when interpreting the Bible. To seriously study 1 Timothy 2, we must not ignore the precise words Paul used to talk about women.
Priscilla Speaks
By: Mimi Haddad | March 25, 2021
To read Priscilla’s story through a lens of male-only leadership diminished her calling and also Paul’s. It also obstructs, demeans, and even abuses God’s welcome to women leaders and their male allies then and now!
She Desires A Noble Task
By: Jim Reiher | March 25, 2021
Intended to help understanding, verse and chapter numbers are not the Word of God. Sometimes these additions break up thoughts that clearly should go together. This leaves interesting questions about 1 Timothy 2 and 3.
How Much Does a Word Mean? Word Studies, Part 3
By: Jeff Miller | September 30, 2020
This is the third in a series about Bible word studies and translation for egalitarians. This entry focuses on a particular instance of a word doesn’t contain all the meaning that the word can carry in 1 Timothy 2.
Eve as a "Type" of Christ: Reframing Power, Identity, & Gender in 1 Timothy 2
By: Allison Quient | August 3, 2019
Using a theological interpretative approach, this workshop provides evidence of a typological relationship between Eve and Christ and discusses some of the implications for our understanding of human power and identity.
Artemis of the Ephesians in First-Century Ephesus and Ramifications for How We Read 1 Timothy
By: Sandra Glahn | August 3, 2019
Who was Artemis Ephesia at the time of the earliest Christians, and what, if any, ramifications are there for how we understand 1 Timothy?
A Woman Who Serves
By: Charity Sandstrom | March 27, 2019
Does 1 Timothy 3:8-13 discount the possibility of women deacons? Not at all.
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta | March 14, 2023
For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders.
