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Book Review: When Others Shuddered: Eight Women Who Refused to Give Up
By: Cameron Simpson | September 4, 2020
Jamie Janosz, in her clearly written and carefully interpreted profile of eight nineteenth- and twentieth-century female Christians, explores the triumphs and hardships of these women.
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.
What We Share with Hild of Whitby
By: Sarah Lindsay | March 18, 2020
Hild is one of any number of women who remind us that women have always played a role in leading the church. That role may be constrained or downplayed, but it nevertheless cannot be hidden.
Nile Mother: The Story of Lillian Trasher
By: Lucinda Yang | March 13, 2020
Lillian Trasher aimed to serve “the least of these” (Matt. 25:40). Her orphanage in Egypt took in abandoned children with physical disabilities and illnesses as well as vulnerable widows.
A Rhetorical History: Listening to Our Preaching Foremothers
By: Sarah Kornfield | March 13, 2020
I offer here a history of preaching rhetoric with the hope of encouraging women whose calling is the pulpit. We will explore how women have proven their preaching authority and constructed their sermons across time.
What Katharine Bushnell Still Has to Teach Us Today
By: Julie Walsh | January 31, 2020
Catherine Kroeger, the founding president of CBE, stated, “although women had made forays into the field of biblical interpretation, it was to be Katharine Bushnell who would bring out the heavy artillery.”
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.”
Phoebe: A Story
By: Michaela Miller | July 31, 2019
Paula Gooder presents an imaginative telling of the life and ministry of Phoebe. She states that her purpose in writing this story is not simply to provide an entertaining novel, but also to inform readers of the reality behind the NT text.
Book Review: Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church and Ministry
By: CBE International | April 9, 2019
Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church and Ministry invites the reader to understand the Pentecostal/charismatic (P/c) movement from the epistemological loci of eighteen female (and two male) academics and practitioners.
Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church and Ministry
By: Margaret English de Alminana, Lois E. Olena | April 3, 2019
Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry concerns women and Pentecostalism. It introduces the way the Pentecostal / charismatic movement has been shaped by and has shaped women from its beginning and offers a wide variety of responses to the opportunities and limitations women have experienced in their commitment to religious service.