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A Psalm for Mary

By: Kay Bonikowsky | December 13, 2019

Favored is she who relies on God.         She trusts without full understanding.         She expects His will to triumph. Confident is she who knows the Lord.

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My Soul Rejoices: Empowerment, Prophecy, and Luke’s Gospel

By: Sarah Hardman | December 13, 2019

The story of Jesus’ birth might be the most misquoted and misunderstood story in the gospels. Luke’s gospel account of both the annunciation and the nativity are strikingly unique.

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The Mother of God and the Female Body

By: Eliza Stiles | December 13, 2019

From its earliest times, the church has struggled to be a space in which women and girls can think positively about their identities as Christians and the reality of their female bodies. 

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Saying Yes to God's Disruptions

By: Karley Hatter | December 13, 2019

Disruptions are inevitable in this life. We face circumstances and events in our day-to-day lives that feel like giant mountains, road blocks, and dead ends. Bad things happen to us, our families, and the people we love.

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Mary the Brave: Neither Meek nor Superhuman

By: Katie McEachern | December 13, 2019

One Sunday, about a year ago, I was visiting a new church. It was December, and the pastor was preaching about Mary. I was surprised by how well he positioned Mary as an equal to the congregation—neither meek nor superhuman.

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Behaving Like Mary: Reexamining Mary’s Encounter with Gabriel

By: Julie R. Frady | December 13, 2019

I recently saw a meme of the Virgin Mary with the words “well-behaved women make history” on it. The meme was a pushback on the pithy saying, “well-behaved women rarely make history.” 

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Book Review: The #MeToo Reckoning

By: Elizabeth Beyer | December 11, 2019

In The #MeToo Reckoning, Everhart invites readers to “explore two types of stories around sexual assault”—current stories in the Protestant church and biblical stories. 

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Better Together: An Interview with Kristen Padilla and Tara Beth Leach

By: Ellen Richard Vosburg | December 4, 2019

 Instead of us focusing on negative comments aimed at women, we were able to focus on the ways in which God is at work among women in bringing sons and daughters to Christ.

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Giving Thanks for the Women

By: Sarah Lindsay | November 26, 2019

We are caught in tension between thanks for progress towards gender equality and dismay at the misogyny we see around us. Gratitude for progress does little to ease the pain of sexism by Christian men who tell women in ministry to “go home.”

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Who Decides? Transitioning Churches as an Egalitarian Couple

By: Holly Fletcher | November 20, 2019

Life would have been easier, at least outwardly, if we had followed complementarian theology. We might have stayed at our church.

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