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Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
By: Aimee Byrd | May 5, 2020
Aimee Byrd's book is a resource to help church leaders improve the culture of their church and disciple men and women in their flock to read, understand, and apply Scripture to our lives in the church.
Editor's Reflection: Spring 2020
By: Jeff Miller | April 30, 2020
Priscilla Papers is created by and for people with a broad range of gifts, professions, callings, and interests. Together, we are advancing evangelical gender egalitarianism.
Exploring the Garden of Feminine Motifs in Songs of Songs
By: Timothy Paul Erdel | April 30, 2020
Erdel proposes a dramatically different way of understanding the typological divine-human relationship in Song of Songs: The female beloved is a type of God, and the male lover is the type of unfaithful Israel.
Mary and Martha: Celebrating the Gifts of Others
By: Janet Galante, Molly Kate Hance | April 30, 2020
This sermon on Mary and Martha in Luke 10 argues that the problem is neither Martha’s housework nor Mary’s sitting at the feet of Jesus. The problem is judgment, which should be replaced with celebration of the gifts of others, even when those gifts differ from our own.
Women Leaders at the Table in Early Churches
By: Ally Kateusz | April 30, 2020
The tradition of women raising the eucharistic cup is witnessed from the late 100s to the mid-500s, including evidence from the three oldest surviving iconographic artifacts that depict early Christians in real churches.
Women Priests and the Image of God
By: Karen Strand Winslow | April 30, 2020
C. S. Lewis argued against women as priests in his 1948 essay, “Priestesses in the Church?” His reasoning was that a female priest could not adequately represent a male God. Winslow examines this reasoning and finds it lacking.
A Tale of Two Sisters: Finding Our Place at the Table
By: Sarah Garay | April 29, 2020
My sister, Becky, was seven years older than me, and trying to prove myself as smart and beautiful as she was would capture my attention well into my twenties. Becky was a wonderful older sister.
Motherhood: A Confession
By: Natalie Carnes | April 28, 2020
In this memoir, Natalie Carnes describes giving birth to a daughter and beginning a story of conversion strikingly unlike Augustine's―even as his journey becomes a surprising companion to her own.
Drop the Rope: What We Don’t Notice about Patriarchy
By: Rhesa Higgins | April 22, 2020
In my experience, the belief that white men are superior to people of color and white women is the boulder that these two groups are yelling over and collectively ignoring most of the time.
Christ Is Risen: The Nonsense of a Hysterical Woman
By: Chesna Hinkley | April 15, 2020
How did Mary enter the popular imagination as the femme fatale with a checkered past, made demure and modest by her encounter with Christ? The answer is complicated, but it has much to do with the erasure of other women.