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Galilee’s Got Talent! How the Arts Empower Women
By: Nijay K. Gupta | March 1, 2023
It’s no surprise that women’s voices are often left in the dark in patriarchal cultures. But throughout the Bible and beyond, the arts have brought women’s hidden voices to light. Women indwelled with the Spirit should let their voices ring as Mary, Deborah, and Miriam did.
Christian Marriages through Time: A Brief Historical Review
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | February 27, 2023
Take a quick flight over history to observe how couples have transcended cultural expectations in following Christ.
Book Review: Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership
By: Eric Anthony | February 24, 2023
Kateusz goes to great lengths to show, successfully, that many of the documents and artworks we have today suffered intentional changes to remove or revise references to women as leaders. However, there are times when Kateusz goes beyond the evidence, though this can be difficult to parse for the non-specialist in history and art.
A Medieval Makeover: Women's Roles Before and After the Reformation
By: Michele Arndt | November 3, 2022
The journey of women’s leadership in the church is hardly a straight line. It is a curvy road with plenty of twists and turns, sometimes pointing women to lead and, at other times, pointing them right out the door. One result of the Protestant Reformation was to drive women out of leadership and into [...]
The Ministry of Women and the Merger of Church and State in Fourth-Century Christianity
By: Shelley Siemens Janzen | November 3, 2022
Christianity's fourth-century merger with the Roman Empire suppressed the NT pattern of welcoming women as exemplary servant leaders.
Video: Ethnicity and Gender: Mutuality in Galatians 3:28 and Ephesians 5:21–33
By: Craig Keener | November 2, 2022
If Galatians 3:28 declares that unity in Christ has obliterated ethnic and gender barriers, what should we make of the household codes in Ephesians 5:21—6:9 and elsewhere? If Galatians 3:28 is the universal principle, how is that lived out in the tension between the already/not yet in a fallen world? This workshop explores the social and apologetic [...]
Audio: Ethnicity and Gender: Mutuality in Galatians 3:28 and Ephesians 5:21–33
By: Craig Keener | November 2, 2022
If Galatians 3:28 declares that unity in Christ has obliterated ethnic and gender barriers, what should we make of the household codes in Ephesians 5:21—6:9 and elsewhere? If Galatians 3:28 is the universal principle, how is that lived out in the tension between the already/not yet in a fallen world? This workshop explores the social and apologetic [...]
Video: Why Pastor Priscilla Ends Christian Patriarchy
By: Terran Williams | November 2, 2022
Egalitarians have spent have spent most of their energy defending Priscilla’s genuine teaching role. But few have noticed or put forward the biblical evidence for her vocation as elder/pastor. When we ask two questions, (Who are the named male pastors/elders in the New Testament? And then given that there is only one, [...]
Audio: Why Pastor Priscilla Ends Christian Patriarchy
By: Terran Williams | November 2, 2022
Egalitarians have spent have spent most of their energy defending Priscilla’s genuine teaching role. But few have noticed or put forward the biblical evidence for her vocation as elder/pastor. When we ask two questions, (Who are the named male pastors/elders in the New Testament? And then given that there is only one, [...]
Remembering Sarah Jane Lancaster without Forgetting Winifred Kiek: Just Who Was the First Female Minister in Australia?
By: Jim Reiher | August 9, 2022
Sarah Jane Lancaster and Winifred Kiek were ministers and trailblazers in Australia in the early twentieth century.