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The Social Identity of the Earliest Christians
By: Ben Witherington III | July 23, 2017
This workshop considers the real nature of Greco-Roman and early Jewish culture, and how this should change the way we read various passages in the New Testament related to women and their roles.
Adventures in Sexist Hermeneutics
By: Jamin Hübner | July 22, 2017
In this lecture, Dr. Hübner outlines vivid examples of when biblical exegesis goes south because of an agenda to discriminate against women and maintain male dominance.
The "Billy Graham Rule" Strikes Again... In the Second Century Church
By: Jamin Hübner | April 19, 2017
The rule implies that male-female relationships primarily consist of sex instead of viewing male-to-female relationships as a subset of the more fundamental human-to-human relationship.
Biblical Equality and the Letters of Paul
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | April 5, 2017
Do egalitarians overlook the deeper truths of Scripture to promote social-economic equality? Does our commitment to biblical gender equality render us secular wolves dressed as biblical lambs?
How Advent Teaches Us to Find God In the Feminine
By: Rachel Asproth | December 12, 2016
For most of my life, I didn’t understand the significance of Advent. It paled next to Christmas. And I felt the same indifference for Advent that I had for every other church season.
Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Power
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | October 24, 2016
In recent years, we American evangelicals have struggled more than ever to manage our “image.” In 2016 alone, significant numbers of abused women and children have exposed one prominent evangelical leader after another. These evangelical leaders have betrayed the trust of thousands who invested in their theology and leadership, leaving a trail of victims in their [...]
Women's History Month: Early Evangelical Women
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 24, 2016
When I am invited to speak at a Christian college, I make an effort to learn something about the school, particularly about the founders and graduates. Over time, I’ve discovered an impressive history of women graduates who were trained by these early evangelical Bible institutes, today's Christian colleges and universities, in the 1800s.
Women's History Month: Women in the Modern Mission Movement
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 17, 2016
Women participated significantly in the modern mission movement, serving as leaders in what was perhaps the greatest missionary impulse the world has ever known.
Women's History Month: Mystics and Monastics
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 11, 2016
Despite the opposition of medieval theologians who insisted that women were unsuited for leadership because of Eve’s sin, women leaders, mystics, and missionaries offered strong moral, spiritual, and intellectual rescue to the church in the Middle Ages.
Ancient Israel’s Queen of Hearts
By: Aliyah Jacobs | March 5, 2016
Salome Alexandra was a Hasmonean, born almost twenty years after her family had taken leadership over the land. She grew up privileged, educated, and incredibly strong. She excelled in her studies of God’s Holy Law and in political affairs.