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The Good News About Sex After Marriage: You Can Still Say "No"
By: Lisa Bartelt | September 26, 2018
“If you don’t have sex with your husband anytime he wants, he’ll find it somewhere else.” Fresh out of college and a new Christian, this was my introduction to what I thought was the “biblical” approach to marriage.
Announcing the 2018 Writing Contest Winners!
By: CBE International | September 18, 2018
With difficulty, we chose fifteen winners and six honorable mentions, which you’ll see published on our website in the coming months along with many other amazing entries.
The Tears of Men: The Emotional Masculinity of Jesus and Saint Francis
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | September 5, 2018
How easily we swallow the myth that “boys don’t cry,” forgetting that male saints, and Jesus himself, often failed to conform to the gender stereotypes of their (or our) day.
Never Bashful: Standing with My Foremothers
By: Kimberly Majeski | March 5, 2018
I was thirteen the first time I heard the words, “women cannot be preachers” spoken into thin air and inside the walls of that place where I had always been loved, had always felt safe. The words felt like a stone thrown into the rudder of a ship, they caught me, caused me to heave [...]
My First Time: When Being Who God Made You Isn’t Okay
By: Heather Henderson | March 5, 2018
“Heather has no business being in the pulpit.” The words leaped out at me from the computer screen, screaming at me from an email not written to me, but about me, to two of my male colleagues.
Saying Yes: I Never Wanted to Preach, but My Daughter Needs Me To
By: Emily Summach | March 5, 2018
What good, I feared, would it do my daughter to know that she was equal, but only in theory? How could she envision herself preaching if there were no women to spark her imagination? How could she be what she could not see?
The Crushing Burden Of Bearing Authority Alone
By: Amanda K. Fowler | November 29, 2017
A massive amount of ink has been spilled in analyzing the decline in male participation in the American church. Even as the number of women leaving the church rises, you can find countless articles pointing to a variety of root causes for the dearth of men. Many blame the “feminization” of the church. Some fault [...]
5 Definitive Signs A Church Is Invested In Women
By: Andrea Ackermann | November 7, 2017
Here are 5 practices of a church culture that seeks to empower and invest in women, based on what I’m learning through current experience and being graciously taught about the church’s largely unheeded role in the development of women.
3 Practical Changes Churches Can Make To Empower Women
By: Shannon Greene | October 24, 2017
I am fortunate to belong to a global denomination that affirms and supports women in ministry. Since its official formation in 1908, the Church of the Nazarene has ordained women right alongside their male colleagues. I’ve often heard it remarked that Nazarene women could preach twelve years before they could vote in US elections!