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3 Practical Changes Churches Can Make To Empower Women
By: Shannon Greene | October 24, 2017
I am fortunate to belong to a global denomination that affirms and supports women in ministry. Since its official formation in 1908, the Church of the Nazarene has ordained women right alongside their male colleagues. I’ve often heard it remarked that Nazarene women could preach twelve years before they could vote in US elections!
Not Alone: 11 Inspiring Stories of Courageous Widows from the Bible
By: Miriam Neff | October 22, 2017
You are not alone. Even if you have suffered terrible tragedy, even if you have lost the person most dear to you, God's love holds you in his comforting embrace. Miriam Neff shares this essential message through the powerful testimony of eleven widows in the Bible. Their stories are brought to narrative life in lyrical, [...]
Mutual by Design: A Better Model of Christian Marriage
By: Elizabeth Beyer | October 21, 2017
Many books on Christian marriage assume that the Bible puts men in a leadership role. But there’s a better way. Not only is it healthier for families, but it’s more faithful to the Bible, which casts a vision of marriage where men and women co-lead and co-serve as equal partners.
Excerpts from The Feminist Bogeywoman
By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis | October 20, 2017
Excerpts from the booklet, The Feminist Bogeywoman, written by Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and published in 1995 by Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group. It is used here by permission.
Biblical Interpretation and the Epistle to the Ephesians
By: Lisa Baumert | October 20, 2017
Where and how we start in our interpretation of Scripture determines where we will end up. When seeking to understand the relevance of the Bible’s teaching for our lives, interpretive starting points are particularly significant. The method by which we read and derive meaning from Scripture is the fundamental determinant of the nature of [...]
Will Boys Be Boys and Girls Be Girls?
By: David M. Csinos | October 20, 2017
As people and institutions demonstrate socially appropriate ways of being male or female, children become apprentices and learn what it means to be a boy or girl in their culture.
The Cultural Context of Ephesians 5:18–6:9
By: Gordon D. Fee† | October 20, 2017
Is there a divinely ordained hierarchy in the life of the church and home that is based on gender alone?
When Will We Be "Real"? When Will We Be Free?
By: Kari Torjesen Malcolm | October 20, 2017
As women, many of us have found out how wonderful it is to be loved by our families. But then we venture out beyond the shelter of our home and loved ones and go to the edge of the woods--into the male world--and we discover that we are not taken seriously.
Editor's Reflections | Autumn 2017 (31.4)
By: Jeff Miller | October 20, 2017
2017 is CBE International’s thirtieth anniversary and is being celebrated as a “Year of Jubilee.” This expanded issue of Priscilla Papers functions as part of this Jubilee celebration.
The Biblical Teaching on Women: Correcting Caricatures
By: Walter C. Kaiser, JR. | October 20, 2017
If we all approach the text of Scripture, each having his or her own framework of understanding (even when we share a view of the Bible that it is inerrant and true in all it affirms and teaches), is there any hope that we can ever reach a “correct” or “objectively valid” interpretation, especially [...]