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“I Received My Commission From Him, Brother”
By: Jennifer Lynn Woodruff Tait | December 5, 2007
These were among the first women to find in Methodism a liberating power to preach the gospel, but they were not the last. A qualified openness to women as spiritual leaders and preachers carried over into early American Methodism
Lessons from the Female Cherokee Seminary
By: Wade Burleson | December 5, 2007
With the help of missionaries named Samuel Austin Worcester and Elizur Butler who had traveled The Trail of Tears with them, the Cherokees at Park Hill began a seminary for women in 1851.
A Forum of Sensible Voices
By: Brandon G. Withrow | December 5, 2007
Whether rich or poor, black or white, male or female, free or slave, egalitarians of the nineteenth century called the world to answer for its oppression of those made in the image of God
Editor's Note: We are Pioneers for Jesus
By: Chelsea DeArmond | December 5, 2007
But authors in this issue of Mutuality provide many examples of amazing evangelical pioneers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries whose commitment to biblical authority and to fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commission convinced them that women needed to be free to use their ministry gift s and equipped to answer God’s [...]
An Irrepressible Legacy
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2007
One of the most important contributors to the biblical basis for women’s ministry was Katharine Bushnell (1856–1946), who wrote perhaps the most extensive biblical treatment of gender ever published.
A Forgotten Pioneer: Julia Kavanaugh's Women of Christianity
By: James Smith III | September 1, 2007
Julia Kavanaugh, an Irish Roman Catholic, was a Victorian novelist and biographer. Her book "Women of Christianity" offers the earliest survey of women’s lives in the Christian tradition. This text refutes the frequent charge of trendiness of egalitarianism, as it was written 150 years ago. It confronts male-dominated history (“great events, dazzling actions”) as pagan [...]
Women's Care in Relation
By: Helen LaKelly Hunt | March 5, 2007
We can follow these examples of radical acts of loving by making small choices each day: recognizing someone else’s pain before yelling at them for being too needy; giving someone the benefit of the doubt before jumping to conclusions; forgiving someone who has disappointed us.
Prayer and Worship in CBE
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2006
Something powerful takes place when those who are called to be agents of change passionately devote themselves to prayer and worship. It’s like striking a match over logs soaked in fuel.
Post-1970s Evangelical Responses to the Emancipation of Women
By: Kevin Giles | October 31, 2006
In what follows I outline the alternative theologies that have emerged among evangelicals since the 1970s when women’s emancipation changed the world forever.
Reflections on Chapter 2 of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By: Leah Welch | October 31, 2005
Arguably, Mary Wollstonecraft can be as relevant today as she was in 1792 when she wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Her critique of societal norms and the education of women and children was revolutionary when she wrote it, and it still has the capability to be influential today.