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Priscilla and the Explosion of Women Church Planters Today: Priscilla, the Pastor-Teacher
By: Terran Williams | October 16, 2025
There are three places where Paul emphasizes spiritual gifts as the determinant for who does what in a local church: 1 Corinthians, Romans, and Ephesians. Well, it turns out that Priscilla was involved in all three of those churches. The evidence seems to show that she had been freed up to use the gifts that God [...]
What Can Be Good About Reporting Bad News?
By: Martha Thorson | October 9, 2025
When in the church we are functioning as peers, we are to keep trying to work out our problems. But when anyone is in a relationship of power over another, if the one in power is demanding and merciless, Jesus held up the community that was outraged and reported the abuse as a role model. [...]
Women in Scripture and Mission: Bakhita
By: Kimberly Dickson | October 7, 2025
Bakhita’s faith strengthened her to defy the abuses of human trafficking and racism. Her story reminds us that all people—with their different stories, colors, and backgrounds—reflect the image of God and are, therefore, worthy of dignity and respect.
Priscilla and the Explosion of Women Church Planters Today: Women Church Planters Across the Globe
By: Terran Williams | September 11, 2025
Does God regard gender when he chooses people to lead churches? Williams explores Christianity's history of women church planters for an answer.
Easter Mourning
By: Juliann Bullock | April 17, 2025
What do we do with grief when we are supposed to celebrate Jesus's resurrection? This week, we are invited to join Mary Magdalene and the cloud of witnesses throughout church history who have sat with the pain and bewilderment of grief and unanswered questions.
Healing from Hierarchy
By: Jazmine Lawrence | March 20, 2025
Jazmine Lawrence shares how God has healed her from the physical, emotional, and spiritual damage of hierarchy.
A Voice from the Well: Embracing the First Evangelist
By: Dawn Sutherland | March 13, 2025
Dawn Sutherland provides an insightful look at the legacy of the Samaritan woman, who should not be marred by scandal but honored for the radical act her commissioning was—a testament to the inclusivity of Jesus’s message and the profound role women play in its propagation.
Back in the Picture
By: Amelia Smith | September 19, 2024
All too often, Christian churches tend to erase women from our presentations of the Gospel. We decorate our worship spaces with depictions of the Last Supper—thirteen men who all look the same, crowded around a table—and leave women wondering if there is any room for them.
Book Review: Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity
By: Grace Payne | June 21, 2024
In Jesus the Refugee, Glenn Butner Jr. traces the flight of Joseph and Mary along with baby Jesus into Egypt and highlights how they would have been potentially received if the modern refugee conventions we have were in place. The book was an insightful, convicting, and educational read. Butner’s style is clear and concise, [...]
"Talking with a Woman..."
By: Neil Rees | June 20, 2024
Did the disciples realise how much their thinking was impacted by the powerful forces that shaped the world they had grown up in, with its cultural norms surrounding the place of women, reinforced by both implicit and explicit instruction? Did they have any idea to what extent the patriarchal system that they unreservedly embraced was [...]