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Bikinis, Bodies, And How We Talk About Modesty

By: Valerie Geer | October 16, 2017

It was a typical summer weekend service at our local church. I was perusing the bulletin announcements about our son’s upcoming youth group trip that included a water park excursion. Amidst the details for the trip was the following blurb instructing students what to bring:

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An Egalitarian Man Is Hard To Find

By: Kelci Straka | October 3, 2017

When I was six I asked my father, “Daddy, why can’t Mommy be a deacon?” I don’t remember my father’s response, but I remember puzzling over gender roles in my Southern church from an early age.

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Announcing the CBE Writing Contest Winners!

By: CBE International | September 14, 2017

This August, CBE International held its first-ever popular writing contest: Write for Gender Justice! Thanks to the creative gifts and enthusiastic participation of our diverse audience of writers, speakers, preachers, advocates, and story tellers, it was a great success!

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CBE Writing Contest: Write for Gender Justice

By: CBE International | August 8, 2017

Enter the CBE Writing Contest! Get published; win a copy of Tara Beth Leach’s new book: Emboldened; and get a free CBE subscription!  

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Wonder Woman In The Pulpit

By: Rachel Asproth | June 6, 2017

It matters that Mary and Jesus are often inaccurately imaged with light skin in the West. It matters that pastors preach on Jacob, David, and Peter but not Rahab, Tamar, and Priscilla. And it matters that, Sunday after Sunday, women don’t see preachers who look like us in the pulpit.

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A Prayer for Women: Remember Your Daughters

By: Rachel Asproth | June 5, 2017

God of Hagar, Tamar, and Mary Magdalene | Of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel    

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A Prayer for Women: Remember Your Daughters

By: Rachel Asproth | January 3, 2017

God of Hagar, Tamar, and Mary Magdalene | Of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel | God of Ruth, Esther, and Rahab | Of the Woman at the Well and the Woman They Would Have Stoned

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Samaritan Sinner, Celebrated Saint: The Story of the First Christian Missionary

By: Bronwen Speedie | December 5, 2016

Many Jewish rabbis of Jesus’ time would cross the street rather than walk near a woman, but Jesus crossed into unthinkable territory for this “divine appointment” with a Samaritan woman.

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For the Bible Tells Me So: A Reflection on Gender Power Relations

By: Miranda Pillay | September 16, 2016

Lecture from 2016 international conference "Truth Be Told" in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Book Review: Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate

By: Aída Besançon Spencer | July 31, 2016

Increasingly, one of the latest reactions to the evangelical gender debate among some younger Christian women is “I am neither complementarian nor egalitarian,” inviting the reply: So, then, what are you? And, why do you respond in this way?Michelle Lee-Barnewall, associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology at Biola [...]

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