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A Matter of Justice: My Journey Toward Gender Equality
By: Lance Robinson | October 5, 2011
I began to struggle with my "soft" complementarianism. It seemed that no matter how I tried to slice it, spin it, or soften it; at the end of the day, however much the gap was minimized, women remained inferior to men.
"Not So With You"
By: Elizabeth Beyer | July 5, 2011
Clearly, it is easy for us to lose sight of God’s ways and resort to our own default way of doing things. The popular concept of “headship”—the idea that the man is the leader of his wife and family and that he exercises authority over his wife as her spiritual covering and priest— [...]
Courageous Men and Women
By: Megan Greulich | June 5, 2011
If the Bible teaches that men are the spiritual leaders of their homes as the Courageous characters suggest, and if their resolution fleshes out what that leadership looks like, then what is uniquely “male” about these challenges? Is it not also the calling of Christian women to be engaged, prayerful, respectful, kind, and integrity-filled?
"Little Debbie" or Powerful Prophet?
By: Jenny Rae Armstrong | June 5, 2011
What the example of Deborah reveals about gender authority: As women have gained increased influence in society, and as Bible scholars offer a consistent egalitarian interpretation of Scripture, gender traditionalists have had to work harder and more creatively to justify the subordination of women within the church and family—even to themselves.
Reaching the Average Joe
By: J. Lee Grady | January 19, 2011
J. Lee Grady, an award-winning journalist, minister, and CBE advisory board member, says we won't change the culture until we climb down from the ivory tower to reach the "common man." That's exactly what he aims to do with his new book 10 Lies Men Believe.
A Long Walk on the Beach
By: Anthony Parrott | December 5, 2010
This simple discovery—that the “biblical” phrase “man is the head of the household” wasn’t biblical at all—was enough to cause me to question most everything I had assumed I knew about the Bible.
Is Women’s Leadership in the Church a “Primary Issue”?
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | September 5, 2010
If you’ve been a passionate egalitarian for any length of time, you’ve probably heard someone say, “Yes, the egalitarian position is biblically sound, but it is not a 'primary issue!'”
My Marriage Bond: From Stratified to Unified
By: Yvette Menking | September 5, 2010
The well-known words in Ecclesiastes —“a cord of three strands is not quickly broken” (Eccles. 4:12b) — are often used to create a visual icon in our minds of the marriage bond.
Are Men More Rational and Women More Emotional?
By: Alvera Mickelsen | June 5, 2010
If we read the Bible without preconceived ideas about “roles” that men and women should play on this earth, we can begin to see its true teaching. Unfortunately, most of us have been brought up with predetermined concepts of what the Bible says that men and women should be like and in what ways they [...]
Fuzzy Words and Quick Assumptions
By: Megan Greulich | December 5, 2009
Being familiar with the long debate over the meaning of the word “head” (kephale), I listened carefully for his definition, especially when he reached verse 23: “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.”