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She Desires A Noble Task
By: Jim Reiher | March 25, 2021
Intended to help understanding, verse and chapter numbers are not the Word of God. Sometimes these additions break up thoughts that clearly should go together. This leaves interesting questions about 1 Timothy 2 and 3.
Modeling Jesus's Power
By: Jennifer Reil | March 25, 2021
Paul lived and died for the gospel of Jesus. We learn a bit more about what Paul thought this gospel meant and what he believed it changed about power dynamics from what he says in his letter to the Philippians.
Hanging Onto Galatians 3:28
By: Chesna Hinkley | March 25, 2021
Christians can assume egalitarian interpretations of Paul are a modern phenomenon, but evidence suggests that is incorrect. Meet one Christian group who ordained women for 200 years after Paul because of Gal. 3:28.
Monica of Hippo: Influential Church Mother and Domestic Abuse Survivor
By: Olivia Brokaw | March 24, 2021
Monica, the church mother and venerated saint, was the reason her son, Augustine of Hippo, became a Christian. Her influence over Christianity cannot be understated, and her story must be remembered.
Florence Li: Pioneer in the Anglican Priesthood (Part 2)
By: Christy Chia | March 10, 2021
Find out how Florence Tim Oi Li's story ends. Li was a Chinese woman from Hong Kong, who was ordained as a the first female Anglican priest in 1944, nearly 30 years before it was permitted in her province and 50 years before the ordination of the first woman priests in the Church of England
Florence Li: Pioneer in the Anglican Priesthood (Part 1)
By: Christy Chia | March 3, 2021
Meet Florence Tim Oi Li, a Chinese woman from Hong Kong, who was ordained as a the first female Anglican priest in 1944, nearly 30 years before it was permitted in her province and 50 years before the ordination of the first woman priests in the Church of England
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By: Kelly Schmidt | February 17, 2021
In The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, Beth Allison Barr shares her personal story of rejecting complementarian views on male headship and female submission.
Celebrating Sojourner Truth as Extraordinary Also Means Lamenting Why She Had to Be
By: Sarah Lindsay | February 17, 2021
Sojourner Truth was a remarkable woman. This article invites us to learn about and celebrate her life, while also lamenting the oppression she experienced that meant she had to be remarkable to be remembered.
Why We Can't Forget the Women Leaders of Azusa Street
By: Michelle D. Williams | February 10, 2021
Many people don’t know that African American women were leading and pastoring churches from the beginning of the modern Pentecostal movement in the early 1900s. Meet two of these women: Lucy Farrow and Jennie Evans Seymour.
Ordained Women in the Church
By: Christine Marchetti | January 30, 2021
Abundant canonical, literary, and epigraphical evidence proves women were ordained leaders in the church for centuries. Women who aspire to ordained ministry today can be encouraged by the rich history of women’s ordination.