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Book Review: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
By: Kate Netzler Burch | April 6, 2023
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood is a thorough, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to prominent Bible passages that are often used to limit women. Philip B. Payne builds upon and summarizes a lifetime of research to show God’s word consistently affirms the equality of women and men.
Book Review: Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Brianna Cortez | March 14, 2023
Whereas most books on women in ministry primarily focus on contested Bible verses, Nijay K. Gupta’s "Tell Her Story" takes a different approach. Gupta studies women throughout the Old and New Testament first, as if to say, these are the stories we need to shape our view of women—the ones that depict what [...]
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Nijay K. Gupta | March 14, 2023
For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders.
Galilee’s Got Talent! How the Arts Empower Women
By: Nijay K. Gupta | March 1, 2023
It’s no surprise that women’s voices are often left in the dark in patriarchal cultures. But throughout the Bible and beyond, the arts have brought women’s hidden voices to light. Women indwelled with the Spirit should let their voices ring as Mary, Deborah, and Miriam did.
Abigail Can Teach Us How to Let God’s Love and Wisdom Flow through Us to Others
By: Madeline Steele Johnston | February 1, 2023
The Abigail of 1 Samuel 25 teaches us that women and men alike need to keep a close connection to God. She teaches us that women have agency and responsibility in their relationship with God, and with their husbands.
Persevering with the Woman Who Bled for Twelve Years
By: Kimberly Dickson | January 18, 2023
What can the woman who bled for twelve years teach women in menopause—and all of us? Jesus sees you, loves you, and honors your persistent faith.
New Voices: The Gender of God with Dr. Amy Peeler
By: Erin Moniz, Blake Dean, Amy Peeler | January 13, 2023
What are the implications of assigning the male gender to God? If God isn’t male, then why do we call God “Father”? Blake & Erin speak with Dr. Amy Peeler about her new book, Women and the Gender of God.
Jairus and the Church Today: Lessons from the Bleeding Woman
By: Anna Beresford | January 11, 2023
Sandwiched between the two halves of the story of the healing of Jairus’s daughter, the story of the bleeding woman helps us see God’s intention for women and men to work side by side. This is how we create a fair, just, and equitable world.
Four Important Lessons We Can Learn from Jesus and the Woman in John 8
By: Taryn Cleaves | January 4, 2023
Why did Jesus respond how he did when the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery before him? Jesus’s interaction with her can help form our own response to the messiness of interacting with ordinary people.
Does Jesus Still Speak to Women?
By: Virginia Quarrier Knowles | December 21, 2022
We rejoice in the knowledge that Jesus himself is still actively calling women into a saving relationship with himself, building them up through the Word and the Holy Spirit, and sending them out into ministry.