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Editor's Reflection: Spring 2026
By: Havilah Dharamraj | May 1, 2026
Across history and across cultures, it appears that women are not difficult to exclude or even to execute. Women are to stay within circles that men chalk out for them. This issue illustrates this stark story, repeatedly played out within the history of Christianity.
Witchcraft in the Middle Ages and Its Impact Today
By: Joe Early | May 1, 2026
Joe Early traces the trajectory of witch-hunting across the Middle Ages into the centuries beyond, to arrive at what it might look like in the Church today in terms of victimizing women by excluding them.
The Complementarian Imagination: Race, Gender, Exclusion, and Dominion
By: Nick O’Brien | May 1, 2026
Nick O’Brien lays out the chilling roots and possible ongoing liaison between genderized exclusion and racial exclusion in Western Christianity.
Was Christianity Good for Women? The Lives of Thecla, Perpetua, Felicitas, and Macrina Against Greco-Roman Expectations
By: Taylor Yoder | May 1, 2026
Taylor Yoder surveys women of the early centuries of the Church—Thecla, Perpetua and Felicitas, and Macrina—who tenaciously stood their ground against the expectations of the culture of their time, and paid for it with either exclusion or execution both.
International Women’s Day: Honoring Women’s Fight for Equality
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2026
In March, CBE celebrates both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Perhaps there’s no better time to celebrate women’s battle for the vote alongside their spectacular courage in leading the abolition of slavery. Gaining the vote, freeing the enslaved, and exposing the abuse and prostitution of women was exceedingly dangerous work because it challenged [...]
Let Them Learn: Why Theological Formation Still Matters, Especially for Women
By: Cynthia Degrie | January 14, 2026
As churches increasingly downplay theological education, believers are left spiritually undernourished—and women bear the greatest cost. This article explores how denying women access to deep theological formation weakens their spiritual agency, leaves them vulnerable to misuse of Scripture, and distorts discipleship. By recovering Jesus’s model of training and commissioning both women and men, [...]
Author Of Fiction, Author Of Faith: The Theology of Dorothy Sayers
By: Josephine Stringer | December 5, 2025
Novelist Dorothy Sayers used the power of story to invite readers to the mysteries of God.
Catharine Beecher’s Moral Theology
By: Morgan Esterline | December 5, 2025
A pioneering educator and influential theologian, Catharine Beecher helped reform public thought about women’s education.
All Shall Be Well: Julian of Norwich Medieval Mother of Theology
By: Janet Warren | December 5, 2025
Julian of Norwich’s visions and beautifully imaged theology reshaped Christian spirituality in the Middle Ages and beyond.
Women Writers in Early Christianity: Their Courage, Leadership, and Legacy
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2025
Thanks to the many women writers throughout history, we have today written witnesses of their lived experiences—not from onlookers, redactors, or family members overcome by strong emotions and motives—but their story in their own words.