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A Response to SBC’s Restrictions on Women
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | June 17, 2026
As the Southern Baptist Convention continues to restrict women’s leadership, President Mimi Haddad contrasts those efforts with the biblical witness and the legacy of Southern Baptist women like Lottie Moon. Celebrating women who faithfully answered God’s call to preach, teach, and lead, Mimi argues that the church should support all whom God has [...]
Women and Words: After the Harm: Wrestling Evil and Reclaiming Women’s Voices in Scripture with Rev. Dr. Ingrid Faro
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International, Ingrid Faro | February 27, 2026
On this episode of Mutuality Matters: Women and Words, Host Dr. Mimi Haddad interviewed Rev. Dr. Ingrid Faro. Ingrid described her challenging childhood and young married life as one of abuse, both psychologically and physically.
Judges 19 as a Paradigm for Understanding and Responding to Human Trafficking
By: Chuck Pitts | February 27, 2026
Judges 19 contains a seldom read, let alone studied or discussed, story of misogyny, subjugation, rape, murder, and dismemberment. Determining how to handle such atrocities in the Bible makes texts such as these difficult to address.
A Negative Model Of Manhood In Judges 19
By: Craig Keener | February 27, 2026
In a society where men still hold most of the social power and where the average husband possesses more physical power than the average wife, we desperately need models of manhood that stress responsibility rather than exploitation, service rather than abuse of power.
He Made Her Play the Harlot: Judges 19 through the Lens of Domestic Abuse
By: Evelyn Sweerts-Vermeulen | February 27, 2026
The church cannot be trusted by those who are suffering to listen well until it has shown that it can speak well, addressing the issues in preaching and in the community.
The White-Washed Elephant’s Grave
By: Audrey Perry | February 4, 2026
The White-Washed Elephant’s Grave describes the deliverance of a Christian wife oppressed by patriarchal beliefs. Unable to accommodate, control, or cover up the elephant in the room, she finally sees it for what it is and learns the truth about who she is in Christ.
#Metoo and Memorials: Making Sense of the Bible’s Traumatic Narratives
By: Monica Napoli Warren | December 4, 2025
Some people view the Bible as an instrument of oppression, particularly for women. But should we see it as that?
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. [...]
Book Review: Tools for Ministry Leaders to Help Victims of Abuse
By: Andrea Calvert | July 24, 2025
Cecilie Croissant hopes that Tools for Ministry Leaders to Help Victims of Abuse “will be a valuable manual that will inspire Christian leaders and believers to pursue further training and study to begin to change the existing faulty mindsets” (Preface) surrounding abuse in their ministries. It’s clear that she has experience helping women in abusive circumstances [...]
Church Lady
By: Elizabeth Fields | July 3, 2025
Her presence is a relentless force of grace. Indeed, despite the world silencing her, God’s work continues to heal the stifling of the church lady.