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Support Survivors and Defy Patriarchy in 2018
By: Rebecca Kotz | January 9, 2018
At the beginning of 2017, I wrote a blog calling for women to speak out and use our voices like never before. And did we ever!
Why We Need to Correct for Patriarchal Bias in Bible Translations
By: Tim Krueger | December 5, 2017
Evangelical tradition places a high value on the biblical text, which is a good thing. But too often, we buy into a myth that our favorite translation is God’s true Word, pure and untainted by bias. Changes are seen as a threat to God’s truth, motivated by a social or political agenda.
Advent and the God Who Makes Room
By: Tina Osterhouse | December 4, 2017
Christianity began when an angel showed up at a young, unwed girl’s house, announcing that she’d been honored with the privilege of carrying a baby boy—a boy who would become the hope of the nations. God chose a young, unwed mother to be mother of the One who would usher in an [...]
Why Men Who Oppose Trafficking Must Fight Patriarchy
By: Rebecca Kotz | September 18, 2017
For the last five years, it seems that sex trafficking has become the social justice issue—the cause that everyone can get behind. Diverse groups of people who agree on nothing else are united in their conviction that sexual slavery is evil. Still, many groups diverge over which method best eradicates it.
Why Marriage Must Be Egalitarian to Be Truly Christ-like
By: Tim Krueger | September 5, 2017
Soft patriarchy makes men kings who play at being one with their subjects, but requires them to keep their crowns. It retains the kind of power-over structure that Jesus gave up when he became human.
The Significance of Worldview in Thwarting Spiritual Formation, with Special Reference to Gender-based Violence in South Africa and Beyond
By: Rosemary J. Hack | July 31, 2017
This article addresses habitual abusive behavior perpetrated by professing Christian men (and sometimes women1) against women.
Marriage: Patriarchal, Sacramental, or Covenantal?
By: Cristina S. Richie | July 31, 2017
Many modern Western marriage rituals—from engagement, to the wedding ceremony, to post-union practices such as female surname change—are clearly patriarchal.
Women's Role in New Testament Household Codes: A Dialogue with Confucian Filial Piety
By: Shi-Min Lu | July 23, 2017
The patriarchal hierarchy imbedded in Confucianism breaks the original design of harmony through filial piety and results in male dominance. This oppressive tendency is in dire need of the healing power of the gospel seen in women’s role in New Testament household codes.
The Invasion of the Homoians: Trinity and Gender, Again!
By: Michael Bird | July 23, 2017
This workshop examines how patriarchal views of gender relationships are sometimes anchored in homoian or semi-Arian views of the Trinity.
Human Dignity: Interrogating Biblical and Cultural Perspectives on the Creation Mandate in Genesis 1-3
By: Diphus C. Chemorion | July 23, 2017
With reference to creation narratives in Genesis and examples drawn from different cultures in Africa and other parts of the world, Chemorion demonstrates how cultural worldviews contribute to a diminished view of women.