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I Will Not Undercut the Ministry of Godly Women

By: Ron Hankins | December 5, 2003

This is a letter Ron Hankins wrote after the International Mission Board ordered missionaries to sign the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message.

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CBE Celebrates 15th Anniversary

By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | March 5, 2003

Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE) has come a long way in 15 years, according to Susan McCoubrie. As CBE’s first membership coordinator, she remembers when the organization’s membership information was organized in a recipe box on a TV tray.

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Book Review: Feminist Theology Through the Ages: Why We're Equal

By: Joseph B. Modica | January 31, 2002

Val Webb has written an engaging, readable, and mostly historical approach to feminist theology. Her thesis is straightforward and often restated: "The goal of this book is to look at the diversity of the feminist movement and show how limited and inaccurate negative stereotyping is." 

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Book Review: Woman in the Pulpit

By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 31, 2001

Woman in the Pulpit exposes the myriad ways in which Christians read the Bible inconsistently. "A practice prohibited in one sentence and regulated in another, by the same author, shows either variability in opinion, or else an intended limitation in the original prohibition."

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Women, Religion, and the Culture War

By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, Douglas Groothuis | September 5, 2000

At its yearly convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America passed a statement opposing abortion, pornography, homosexuality — and female pastors. For Southern Baptist leaders, these issues hang together. They assume that on their side of the culture war, Christians must oppose these practices as a piece. 

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Women and Other Creatures: A Gender Debate

By: Joe E. Trull | April 30, 1999

The status of “women and other creatures” has been a topic of constant debate ever since the woman ate the forbidden fruit and the man blamed her and God for the consequences (Gen 3:9-12).

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Setting the Record Straight: A Response to J.I. Packer's Position on Women's Ordination

By: Hyunhye Pokrifka Joe, Grace Ying May | January 30, 1997

With due respect to Packer’s erudition and contribution to evangelical thought, we do not see women’s ordination as merely a by-product of modernity. We firmly believe that Scripture has consistently affirmed the ministry of women and placed equality at the core of God’s redemptive purposes since the very beginning.

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Book Review: My Daughter a Preacher!?!

By: James R. Beck | October 31, 1996

While this book does not explore new territory regarding the issue of women in ministry, it does serve a useful purpose: This is an ideal book to give your pastor, especially if he is straddling the fence on this issue. One pastor speaking to other pastors can have a powerful impact.

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Women in the Pulpit

By: Frances Willard | January 1, 1889

Written by Frances Willard, a leader of the temperance movement, this book is a collection of testimonies provided by men and women preachers including Dr. Van Dyke a Presbyterian and Dr. Townsend a Methodist theologian. 

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