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Women and Words: “Male Pronouns Don’t Exist in 1 Timothy 3:1–7” with Dr. Philip B. Payne

By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International, Philip B. Payne | August 4, 2023

Mimi and Phil explore the important decisions of the New Testament translation team on difficult texts such as 1 Timothy 2:11–15, 3:1–12; Ephesians 5:21–33; 1 Corinthians 11:2–16; 1 Peter 2:18, and more!

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Let's Stop Doing as the Romans Do

By: Adam Benner | May 4, 2023

Despite the complementarian claim that female submission is authentically “Christian,” it’s actually more in keeping with Roman practice. In Ephesians 5:25–28, however, Paul teaches his readers to behave in a way that’s very different from that of Roman males—a truly Christian way of honouring women. The question is, will we learn what he [...]

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Book Review: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality

By: Kate Netzler Burch | April 6, 2023

The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood is a thorough, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to prominent Bible passages that are often used to limit women. Philip B. Payne builds upon and summarizes a lifetime of research to show God’s word consistently affirms the equality of women and men.

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Book Review: Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Brianna Cortez | March 14, 2023

Whereas most books on women in ministry primarily focus on contested Bible verses, Nijay K. Gupta’s "Tell Her Story" takes a different approach. Gupta studies women throughout the Old and New Testament first, as if to say, these are the stories we need to shape our view of women—the ones that depict what [...]

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Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church

By: Nijay K. Gupta | March 14, 2023

For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders.

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Audio: A New Humanity

By: Médine Moussounga Keener, Craig Keener | November 2, 2022

How does Paul challenge ethnic and gender division beyond Galatians 3:28? This keynote will explore especially Ephesians’ teaching about the one body of Christ and its explicit implications for ethnic and gender unity (Craig). This keynote will further illustrate with some concrete examples, especially from Africa, of disunity and Christ’s power to transcend such barriers ( [...]

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Video: A New Humanity

By: Médine Moussounga Keener, Craig Keener | November 2, 2022

How does Paul challenge ethnic and gender division beyond Galatians 3:28? This keynote will explore especially Ephesians’ teaching about the one body of Christ and its explicit implications for ethnic and gender unity (Craig). This keynote will further illustrate with some concrete examples, especially from Africa, of disunity and Christ’s power to transcend such barriers ( [...]

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Audio: Ethnicity and Gender: Mutuality in Galatians 3:28 and Ephesians 5:21–33

By: Craig Keener | November 2, 2022

If Galatians 3:28 declares that unity in Christ has obliterated ethnic and gender barriers, what should we make of the household codes in Ephesians 5:21—6:9 and elsewhere? If Galatians 3:28 is the universal principle, how is that lived out in the tension between the already/not yet in a fallen world? This workshop explores the social and apologetic [...]

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