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Will Boys Be Boys and Girls Be Girls?
By: David M. Csinos | October 20, 2017
As people and institutions demonstrate socially appropriate ways of being male or female, children become apprentices and learn what it means to be a boy or girl in their culture.

The Biblical Teaching on Women: Correcting Caricatures
By: Walter C. Kaiser, JR. | October 20, 2017
If we all approach the text of Scripture, each having his or her own framework of understanding (even when we share a view of the Bible that it is inerrant and true in all it affirms and teaches), is there any hope that we can ever reach a “correct” or “objectively valid” interpretation, especially [...]

Language, Logic, and Trinity: A Critical Examination of the Eternal Subordinationist View of the Trinity
By: Millard J. Erickson | July 31, 2017
For the past two decades, evangelical theologians have debated over one specific aspect of the relationship between members of the Trinity. One group insists that the Father is eternally the supreme member of the Trinity, necessarily and always possessing authority over the Son and the Holy Spirit, who are thus subordinate to him. The other [...]

The Nicene and Reformed Doctrine of the Trinity
By: Kevin Giles | July 31, 2017
There can be no denying that we have starkly opposing doctrines of the Trinity. Dr. Grudem and Dr. Ware argue on the basis of creaturely analogies for a hierarchically ordered Trinity where the Father rules over the Son, claiming this is historical orthodoxy and what the church has believed since AD 325. I argue just the [...]

The Blessed Alliance at Work: Women and Men Partnering Together to Advance the Mission of God
By: Rob Dixon | July 23, 2017
God designed an equal and mutual partnership between men and women—together, they were to steward God’s world. What does this “blessed alliance” look like today?

The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry
By: Paul Chilcote | July 23, 2017
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the Methodist defense of women in ministry and how this legacy can inform our advocacy for women today.

The Story of Us: Why Talking about Mutuality Matters
By: Joy J. Moore | July 21, 2017
This seminar rehearses the narratives of Christian Scripture with its theological impact for challenging the practices of gender bias that have subverted the Christian imagination.

Busting The Gender Box: The Abolition of Sex-Based Hierarchy and Men's Violence
By: Rebecca Kotz | July 20, 2017
How does gender breed violence, and what can we do to change this?

Six Ground-breaking Discoveries: A Summary of "Vaticanus Distigme-obelos Symbols Marking Added Text, Including 1 Corinthians 14.34–5"
By: Philip B. Payne | July 15, 2017
A summary of six groundbreaking discoveries from Dr. Philip B. Payne's New Testament Studies 63 (October, 2017) article about the oldest Bible in Greek, Codex Vaticanus, and their implications for the reliability of the transmission of the Greek New Testament and for the equal standing of man and woman

3 Ways Women Shape Theology
By: Rachel Asproth | March 24, 2017
What happens when the hall of theology becomes an echo chamber? What happens when half the sky meets God but the church doesn’t want to hear their story? What happens when the theological insights of women are pressed to the margins of Christianity?