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Editor's Reflection: Summer 2023
By: Havilah Dharamraj | August 7, 2023
The Summer issue of Priscilla Papers includes five articles and a sermon that examine how culture influences society's understanding of gender roles.
God as Motherly Father and Fatherly Mother
By: Joshua Robert Barron | August 7, 2023
Learning from ancient theologians and from twenty-first-century African Christians can help Christians worldwide grow in theological maturity. They help us, for example, understand that the grammatical gender of pronouns referring to God varies from language to language.
Is There Anything More that Can Be Said about 1 Timothy 2:8–15? “Propriety,” A Surprisingly Significant Word
By: Jim Reiher | August 7, 2023
A closer look at sōphrosunē, often translated "propriety" or "modesty," in 1 Timothy 2.
Authority to Cover Her Head: The Liberating Message of 1 Corinthians 11:3–16
By: Juliann Bullock | August 7, 2023
Read within its cultural context, 1 Corinthians 11:3–16 grants women a position of freedom and honor within the church.
Negotiating Boundaries: Reading Pauline Prescriptions in Their Cultural Context
By: Colin Gauld | August 7, 2023
Paul’s instructions in Ephesians 5 and 1 Timothy 2 are context-dependent applications of Christian principles. We too should carefully work our way through cultural boundaries as we proclaim the gospel.
Caste and Gender in India: The Bakht Singh Assemblies and Egalitarianism
By: Ziv Reuben | August 7, 2023
The Bakht Singh Assemblies, an Indian indigenous denomination established in the mid-twentieth century, promoted gender egalitarianism as it engaged the caste question.
In Spite of the Culture: A Sermon
By: Beulah Wood | August 7, 2023
The Bible tells of many married women who acted with independent agency, with or without their husbands.
Together in the New Humanity
By: Craig Keener | May 5, 2023
Paul's letter to the Ephesians supports an egalitarian understanding of Galatians 3:28, rooted in Genesis and other Old Testament texts.
Absalom, David, and Tamar: God’s Heart Through Loss, Not Misogyny
By: Kate Danahy | May 5, 2023
It was not David's violence that made him a man after God's own heart.
Rediscovering an Evangelical Heritage
By: J. G. Brown | May 5, 2023
Christianity laid the foundations for the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement.
