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The Good News About Sex After Marriage: You Can Still Say "No"
By: Lisa Bartelt | September 26, 2018
“If you don’t have sex with your husband anytime he wants, he’ll find it somewhere else.” Fresh out of college and a new Christian, this was my introduction to what I thought was the “biblical” approach to marriage.
When Women Say "No" But Men Don't Like It
By: Rachel Asproth | September 5, 2018
Why the church should talk consent, appropriate touch, and respecting women's "no."
After the Report on Clergy Abuse in Pennsylvania, How Should We Pray?
By: Rachel Asproth | August 21, 2018
A brutal grand jury report on clergy abuse of minors in Pennsylvania was published last week. It details a mass cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by more than three hundred priests in Pennsylvania, and outlines the procedures churches employed to protect predatory priests and conceal sexual abuse.
Is the Gospel the Antidote to Misogyny?
By: Dorothy Greco | August 14, 2018
Given our legacy of broken relationships and deeply entrenched misogynistic practices, how can we follow Jesus’s example and create a culture where the full flourishing of both men and women is normative?
After Willow Creek: How Can Churches Make Women Feel Safe Again?
By: Kelly Ladd Bishop | August 9, 2018
After a sin like the mishandling of abuse allegations is made public, can a church heal? What is next for this church? After a betrayal on this level, how can women in the congregation feel safe? What steps must the church take towards healing?
How Did We Get Here?: Misogyny in the Church and World
By: Dorothy Greco | August 8, 2018
In order to create a new and better path, we must examine our deeply embedded patriarchal patterns and learn from them.
The Character Gap Between Willow Creek and Jimmy Carter
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | July 23, 2018
Many of us are outraged by accounts of inappropriate behavior by Willow Creek Church founder Bill Hybels. We’re disappointed because WC’s prominence as a leading egalitarian megachurch demands greater accountability.
Mars Hill Remixed: Preventing the Past from Becoming the Present
By: Jamin Hübner | July 16, 2018
How on earth could something so public and so obvious and so notorious repeat itself in our information age? But then I remembered: I’ve seen this happen in my own former church, and it continues to happen in countless other churches across the world.
Women Saw #MeToo Coming 100 Years Ago. When Will We Listen?
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez | June 25, 2018
In 2018, the #MeToo movement came to American Protestantism.
More Than A Resolution on Women’s Dignity, We Need Action
By: Rachel Asproth | June 14, 2018
A resolution on the “dignity and worth of women” sounds lovely. We’ve got the bones of something empowering here. But these words—women matter—have no purchase without a shift in theology.