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5 Women of Color Making History in the Church
By: Gricel Medina | March 12, 2018
Here are five women of color I've been fortunate to know who are making history in today’s church, many of them bold leaders within my own denomination, the ECC.
10 Awesome Women Pastors from History
By: Ruth Perry | March 7, 2018
Women pastors are not a new phenomenon, but many Christians aren't aware of the long history of women pastors in the church.
We Need to Read Books on Women in History
By: CBE International | March 5, 2018
It can feel like an especially difficult task to identify places where women shaped history. But it’s only difficult because we’re biased against women’s stories and accomplishments, preferring to study and celebrate the historical influence of men. In other words, it's not that women were absent from history; it's that we haven't [...]
Book Review: Mystics and Misfits
By: Linda Putnam | February 27, 2018
Mystics and Misfits contains encouragement to lean deeper into relationship with God, going beyond intellectual assent and rational belief, into profound transformation by his love.
Book Review: The Wisdom of the Beguines
By: Woodrow E. Walton | December 12, 2017
The Beguines represented a broad spectrum of women of differing backgrounds who gave their lives and means to help the destitute, the ill, the downtrodden, and the homeless. Laura Swan’s history of the Beguines is the first good complete treatment of the Beguines that this reviewer has ever seen.
Tracking Errors in Bible Translation
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2017
While some Christians rationalize sexism and patriarchy by appealing to the “plain reading” of Scripture, others instinctively question whether what they see on the pages of Scripture is a faithful and consistent translation of the original text. At stake is something much more costly than a statue; we risk living our lives based on distortions [...]
A Tale of Two Translators: The Lives and Legacies of Julia E. Smith and Helen Barrett Montgomery
By: Bronwen Speedie | December 5, 2017
Two Bible translations from the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the solo efforts of women scholars. Let me introduce you to Julia Evelina Smith (1792–1886) and Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861–1934).
Foreword to The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 10, 2017
Cicero said: “Who knows only their own generation remains always a child.” [1] We gain extraordinary vitality from the stories of Christian women and men who came before us. In fact, our advocacy for women in ministry leans heavily on their stories. Few are better suited to bring this history to life than Dr. Paul [...]
Book Review: The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 10, 2017
Mimi Haddad's forword to Paul Chilcote's The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry.
Are Egalitarians Giving In To Contemporary Culture?
By: Jeff Miller | August 29, 2017
To those who would ask this easy-to-answer question, whether egalitarians are being seduced by feminism, I might choose to respond as follows: