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Unity through Communion
By: Jeff Miller | May 27, 2012
Throughout much of my childhood, I possessed my home congregation's three unofficial requirements to serve communion: a sport coat and tie, a family that arrived on time, and a Y chromosome. Therefore my brother (who not surprisingly met the same criteria) and I served communion almost every Sunday morning and evening from seventh grade well [...]
Is God Male? (Part 5): On Earth as in Heaven
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 23, 2012
Being so close in age, my younger sister and I developed a helpful system of negotiating disputes, justice, and restitution in our growing up together. Generally our methods of reconciliation worked pretty well. But there were occasions when our communication failed to reconcile an injury or injustice, compelling us to appeal to the highest court— [...]
An 'aha' moment
By: Trevor Sykes | May 18, 2012
Recently Liz and I visited one of our sons (who is the senior pastor of a beachside resort town church) and his family for a weekend. The last time we were there, about 2 months ago, we heard him begin a series on foundations in Genesis where he touched on men and women as God created [...]
Is God Male? (Part 4)
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 16, 2012
Over the past three weeks I have been challenging the idea that there is a “masculine feel” to Christianity based upon the nature of God, our language for God, and Scripture’s explanation of male-female relationships. Today we will tackle another factor contributing to the mistaken idea of a “masculine Christianity”—the perception that only males held positions of prominence [...]
A Pentecost Celebration
By: Yvette Menking | May 9, 2012
I find myself thinking about this question asked by a child, which Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen shared in her book Gender & Grace (p. 34):My younger son asked me this past Pentecost why people don’t get as excited about this holiday as they do about Christmas and Easter. He thinks we should send up fireworks [...]
Is God Male? (Part 3)
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 9, 2012
For years, everyone wondered why my father had difficulty getting dressed, reading maps, and fixing appliances. We later learned the root of his trouble. During his pilot’s training course it was discovered that my father is color blind. He confuses primary colors and has trouble discerning colors that are similar to one another. Despite his [...]
Is God Male? (Part 2)
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 2, 2012
For the first time in history, significantly fewer women in North America are serving or participating in the life of the church, according to the George Barna Group—considered the leading research organization studying faith and culture. Several weeks after Barna released their 20-year study, two prominent pastor’s conferences focused on the need for male-authority. At [...]
My Story
By: Guest Author | April 28, 2012
Heresy was my response to the colleague who gently suggested that he and his wife believed I should consider becoming a pastor. I had been a Christian for 30 years, nurtured by conservative evangelicals thinking that I would always have to struggle against the prejudice of being a woman in ministry. Of course, at that time, [...]
Is God Male? (Part 1): Worship a Male God?
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | April 25, 2012
Though Hilary was only eight years old, she was old enough to notice the “masculine feel” of her church. As the congregation ended their prayers with an “Amen,” Hilary blurted out “All men!” A friend seated next to her asked “Why did you say all men?” She said, “Well, look at them,” pointing to the [...]
Love Builds Up
By: Megan Greulich | April 18, 2012
“But 1 Corinthians 14 says that women should be silent in churches…right?” It was a shy question from a high school student, in the middle of a church fundraising supper. I had been chatting with this student and his family, and his father mentioned how the Bible passage had come up in discussion at their [...]