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Editor's Note: Affected by Injustice

By: Tim Krueger | June 5, 2016

Sometime before my wife and I started dating, we had our first argument. We’d attended an open mic event together at our Christian university, where students of color had shared their stories of pain and oppression. I left feeling annoyed.

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Justifying Injustice with the Bible: Apartheid

By: Kevin Giles | April 20, 2016

No complementarian today is willing to admit that, with Bible in hand, leading evangelical and Reformed theologians argued that slavery was instituted by God and approved by him. If they did, they might have to re-examine their argument that God has permanently subordinated women to men.

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Justifying Injustice with the Bible: Slavery

By: Kevin Giles | April 13, 2016

Complementarians are absolutely convinced that what they teach on the man-woman relationship is what the Bible teaches. To reject their teaching is to reject the Bible, and because the Bible is literally God's words, to reject that teaching is to disobey God himself. 

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Decommissioning Broken Bowls

By: Jerri Dyer | January 24, 2016

Patriarchy is an earthly system that oppresses, limits, and silences women. The church has been complicit in the oppression of women for much of history. It is time for patriarchy to go.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being A Strong Woman

By: Rachel Asproth | January 11, 2016

We think that to be strong women, we must pour out endlessly, we must spend of ourselves, sometimes until nothing is left. But many of us continue to do so, long past when our reserves have run dry, because we think we have something to prove. Because we don’t see that our strength is [...]

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Patriarchy, Western Privilege, and Missions

By: Lori Buckle | November 24, 2015

Lurking beneath my perceived “calling” to missions was an unspoken assumption about my place in the world and the place of others in relation to myself. I now see that my goal and the assumptions driving it were rooted in my own bias. They were also a consequence of patriarchy.  

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Women's Ordination as Pastors: A Middle Eastern Perspective

By: Anne Zaki | August 1, 2015

Explores the most prominent biblical, historical, and cultural arguments presented by both sides in the discussion around the ordination of women as pastors in Egypt.

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Teach Them How to Treat You

By: Austin Channing Brown | August 1, 2015

How do women practice self-care and how do we teach fellow ministry leaders to lean into the gap of support of women? The diversity of women and our experiences will be explored in this lecture.

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Making Space For Women Of Color

By: Mariam Youssef | August 1, 2015

As many churches in immigrant communities and communities of color are struggling under injustices, women of color must work to carve out their own safe spaces for dealing with their marginalization inside and out of the church

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Women's Ordination as Pastors: A Middle Eastern Perspective

By: Anne Zaki | July 31, 2015

2015 “Becoming New” CBE International Conference Explores the most prominent biblical, historical, and cultural arguments presented by both sides in the discussion around the ordination of women as pastors in Egypt.