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Reading Against Abuse: Unhiding Women’s Value in Jesus’s Parables and Our Churches
By: Charel du Toit | October 10, 2024
Jesus’s teachings were all about showing love, compassion, and respect for everyone—including those who were marginalized or whose voices weren’t being heard. By unhiding the women in his parables, we can better understand and appreciate his radical message of equality and justice. This is a vital step towards making the world a [...]
Book Review: Three Wise Women: 40 Devotions Celebrating Advent with Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna
By: Elizabeth Millar | October 1, 2024
In her book Three Wise Women: 40 Devotions Celebrating Advent with Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna, Dandi Daley Mackall walks the reader through the seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany while focusing on the lives of these wise women.
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.
Why Mothers Matter as much as Fathers in Shaping our Perception of God
By: Susanne Maynes | September 12, 2024
God ordained families to ensure children are begotten and raised by both image-bearers—male and female. Do we honestly think the way a mother interacts with her growing children in their formative years has nothing to do with how they see God later in life?
Restoring Biblical Truth: Celebrating Patricia Gundry (1937–2024), an Egalitarian Pioneer
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | August 29, 2024
At a time when egalitarian theology was viewed with suspicion at best or, worse, a distortion of biblical truth, imagine the exhilarating freedom of finding an author who centered biblical and historical facts on women. The author I refer to is none other than the egalitarian pioneer, Patricia “Pat” Smith Gundry.
Martha the Minister: A Sermon on Luke 10:38–42
By: Alison Gerber | August 1, 2024
Alison Gerber’s sermon profiles Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus, as a “minister” in her desire to serve Jesus.
Check Out These Books by CBE International Conference Speakers!
July 25, 2024
Many of the brilliant speakers and workshop leaders who will be featured at CBE's 2024 international conference, "Tell Her Story: Women in Scripture and History," have written books where you can learn more about their research and experience. Here are some of their latest offerings; all links are CBE-affiliated.
Women in Scripture and History: Bringing Phoebe and Junia to Life with Dr. Nijay Gupta
By: Kimberly Dickson, Nijay K. Gupta | July 19, 2024
Kim Dickson talks with Dr. Nijay Gupta about the New Testament women, including Junia and Phoebe, that he highlights in his book Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church.
Book Review: The Biblical World of Gender: The Daily Lives of Ancient Women and Men
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | July 16, 2024
This volume of essays is a thought-provoking read that would enlighten any student unfamiliar with feminist approaches to the Bible and inform someone interested in issues related to biblical equality. For professors or pastors, the book might challenge perspectives they learned in university and seminary.
"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 [...]