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What We Believe Matters
By: Carrie Silveira | October 8, 2026
As we let go of bad theology, the whole church may be built up. Beliefs inform action: When women are recognized as truly equal to men, they will be able to work alongside them as partners, and women and men alike will benefit.
If One Part Hurts: Healing, Hope, and Flourishing
By: Megan Chitsike | October 8, 2026
Sometimes healing looks like finding a group of supportive people on the same journey, learning and growing together even when change is slow to come.
Feeling Pain in the Body of Christ
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | October 8, 2026
Because of the global efforts of egalitarians, every day we hear from someone who was near despair but now has found joy and encouragement in the understanding that “in Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” We see healing.
Spirit Inspired Diversity: Acts 6:1–7 and the Story of Early Church Leadership
By: Joseph Dutko | October 8, 2026
Acts 6 reveals how the Spirit expanded early church leadership to reflect the body, ensuring no one gets overlooked or left behind.
Welcoming Phoebe: Hospitality Is Healing
By: Nick O’Brien | October 8, 2026
Healing and wholeness are deeply connected to belonging and unity. Seeing equality through the lens of hospitality helps us understand our shared invitation at the Lord's table.
Creation Order and 1 Timothy 2:11–15
By: Julie R. Frady | September 9, 2026
The largest denomination in the United States has doubled down on restricting women’s service. Female Southern Baptist Church members already could not be pastors; now they cannot even function like pastors by preaching to an assembled congregation[1]. Many who support this action cite 1 Timothy 2:11–15: Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. [...]
“Consider Others as More Important than Yourselves:” Is Philippians 2:3–11 for Everyone or Just for Women?
By: Carly Pruch | August 4, 2026
Philippians 2 calls all believers to Christlike humility, not women alone. Paul's words subverted Rome's honor culture.
Herodias, Her Daughter, and Herod in Mark 6 in Light of the Parable of the Soils: A Literary and Gender Analysis
By: David E. Malick | August 4, 2026
Reading Herodias through Mark's parable of the soils reveals how Herod, Pilate, and the crowd all reject God's word, not a warning about women's power.
Everyday Submission is More Like a Game and Less Like Gethsemane
By: Christine Woolgar | July 15, 2026
Submission is often misunderstood as silent suffering. This article argues that biblical submission is a voluntary, relational act rooted in agency, mutuality, and trust.
Obey Like Sarah?
By: Bobby Gilles | June 9, 2026
Reading 1 Peter through purely modern eyes can lead us to miss out on just how radical Peter's teachings really were.