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Created for Partnership ... Especially through Mutual Intimacy (Finnish, English)
By: Patti Ricotta | October 23, 2018
When rightly understood, Gen. 2:24-25 and Eph. 5: 21-33 provide an almost formula-like description for a pleasurable, loving, faithful marriage of oneness built on equality and mutuality. Modern science teaches what the writers of Genesis and Ephesians could not have known.
Why Did Paul Ask Men Not to Cover Their Heads while Asking Women to Cover Their Heads? An Interpretation of 1 Cor. 11:2–16 (Finnish, English)
By: Dr. Anne Mikkola | October 23, 2018
The workshop offers participants an opportunity to discuss themes according to their interests relating to the details of the passage, its meaning, the culture of Paul’s time, and even Paul’s theology.
Eyes to See and Ears to Hear Women
By: Tim Krueger | October 22, 2018
For too long, church leaders have failed to see the abuse in the church and failed to hear the women who cry out for justice.
What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women
By: Kevin Giles | October 18, 2018
Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women, he gives the most comprehensive account to date of the competing conclusions to this question and the issues surrounding it.
There's A Woman in Your Pew Who's Been Abused. Do You See Her?
By: Marie H | October 11, 2018
[Trigger Warning] Why did he get to dispense God's grace? Did God's forgiveness of his sin minimize my suffering, my cry for justice? If I couldn’t take the wine from him, ought I to take it at all? How cruel—to demand that I partake in the body by submitting [...]
Without Gender Equality, Our Gospel Has A Hole In It
By: Tim Ritter | October 10, 2018
Tragically, Bible-readers throughout most of church history haven't seen Jesus' call to give up power as essential to or even included in Christian faith. Nowhere has that omission been more costly than in the treatment of gender.
15 Books on Domestic Violence for Pastors, Believers, and Survivors
By: CBE International | October 9, 2018
Are you a pastor or spiritual leader who wants to help and not hurt? Is your church ready to study the link between theology and domestic violence? Here are fifteen resources on domestic violence.
5 Things the Bible Does (and Doesn't) Say About Modesty
By: Jill Richardson | October 8, 2018
Does the Bible really body-shame women? Does it exonerate men when they objectify women? Proponents will say they don’t exonerate men. Men are still guilty, but women, the victims of men’s objectification, are guilty too. But there’s a chasm of difference between “men are guilty, period” and “men and women are both [...]
Single People Aren't Problems to Be Fixed or Threats to Be Neutralized
By: Ella Hickey | October 2, 2018
What’s missing from Christian books on dating, purity, and singleness.
What About the Maleness of Jesus? Is that Significant? (Finnish, English)
By: Charles Read | October 2, 2018
God is not male and neither is the Spirit, but one cannot avoid the fact that Jesus was male. Does this make any difference to how Christians should think about gender issues?