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Invading Homes with Love and Hope: The Courtship and Marriage Foundation in Zimbabwe
By: Herbert Mazonde | June 10, 2020
While the world was preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, an invisible pandemic was quietly yet viciously invading homes. Marriages were at new high levels of distress, punctuated by increased levels of gender-based violence.
Help! Our Babies Are Dying
By: Michelle D. Williams | June 5, 2020
This is an SOS call. We are in a state of emergency. And I am desperately crying out to my white sisters for help. I am writing on behalf of every Black mother, sister, grandma, aunt, cousin, wife.
Learning Solitude from Singles during a Pandemic
By: Alicia McClintic | June 3, 2020
Being a single adult during a global pandemic has been a very lonely experience. But in some ways, it has offered me an incredible gift—although it’s not the gift that most people assume.
Prayer and Social Justice
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 29, 2020
Prayer leads Christ’s followers into the deepest places of human suffering. Here the church becomes the church militia—toppling injustice with the weapons of prayer, service, resistance, and community building.
Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Tips for Egalitarian Marriages and Families in a Pandemic
By: Camden Morgante | May 27, 2020
As egalitarians, we must acknowledge the extra difficulties we are currently experiencing on top of the usual challenges of working toward mutuality in a culture which seems to assume traditional gender roles.
Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age
By: Mae Elise Cannon | May 26, 2020
Activist Mae Elise Cannon takes us beyond the hashtags to serious engagement with real issues. God calls the church to respond substantively to the needs of the poor, the realities of racial inequity, and the mistreatment of women and the marginalized.
Reforming Mentor Relationships by Rereading Genesis 1–3
By: Patricia Williams | May 20, 2020
This contextual reading notes that Jesus’s death on the cross, represented by Eve’s offspring crushing the head of the serpent, frees humankind from sin’s consequences and reorders concepts of male dominion for all time.
Who First Told the Bible’s Stories and Why It Matters
By: Jeff Miller | May 13, 2020
Oral tradition is important for an egalitarian understanding of the Bible—its origins, development, nature, and relevance—because women were among the key players in this stage of the Bible’s development.
Book Review: Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | May 12, 2020
Dharamraj reads the Song of Songs intertextually with the prophetic texts; within a literary culture, texts grow out of a shared linguistic, aesthetic, and ideological substratum, and then influence the interpretation of each other when they are read together.
Christ Our Mother?: What Motherhood Reveals About the Love of God
By: Eliza Stiles | May 6, 2020
Julian rightly sees something significant in the loving act of a mother giving birth that can help us to better grasp how deep and wide God’s love is for all of God’s children.