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Every Glass Ceiling is Broken?
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | February 10, 2009
In a recent ABC special, actor Will Smith is quoted as saying, “If the leader of the free world is African American, then every glass ceiling is broken.” I agree that the inauguration of Barack Obama marks a remarkable moment in US history, but I don’t agree that ‘every’ glass ceiling is broken. It [...]
ESS - A New Doctrine
By: Guest Author | February 8, 2009
This post written by Curtis Freeman is reproduced with the kind permission of Wade Burleson from his blogsite, a valuable resource for egalitarians. http://kerussocharis.blogspot.com/Getting a Trinitarian conversation going among Baptists is more important than one might first expect given that most Baptists these days are, and for some time have been, [...]
An Egalitarian 1st Century Church
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | February 4, 2009
Have you ever noticed how the church in the first century was far more egalitarian (both with respect to class, gender, and ethnicity) than many evangelical churches are today? Isn’t this astonishing! Just look at the list of believers Paul celebrates as his colleagues in bringing the good news of Jesus to the world [...]
Even in Old Age
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | January 28, 2009
“Even to your old age, I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you” (Is. 46:4, ESV). After paying a visit to an octogenarian couple (or a couple in their eighties), a representative of a major mission organization wrote them saying “Many say that 70-80% of Christian leaders do not finish well, and [...]
A New Focus
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 21, 2009
Do you find it curious that some Christians seem entirely focused on gender differences? Have you also noticed that this is rarely the posture of Scripture? The Bible emphasizes our similarities as God’s covenant people, despite gender, class, or ethnicity. What we share in Christ far overshadows differences of skin color, class, or gender. [...]
Slaves, Women & Homosexuals
By: JL P | January 18, 2009
"Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis" by William J WebbThis book starts out with the question: Which of these instructions from Scripture are still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated “on the page”? Webb then lists several Scripture passages. Here is a short sample of them:
One Body, Many Parts
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 14, 2009
Have you ever noticed how Scripture celebrates our interdependence, our mutuality, and our oneness as the church? To be members of Christ’s body gives new meaning, fellowship, and comfort to us in our weaknesses and suffering. It also means that our achievements and our joys are shared and celebrated by our brothers and sisters [...]
"Wives, In The Same Way"?
By: H. Edgar Hix | January 10, 2009
There it is, plain as day: “For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and [...]
Gladys Aylward: "Virtuous One"
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 7, 2009
Have you ever noticed that God seems to delight in confronting the prejudices of the church? Have you also noted how failures and disappointments, even raw prejudice, can be used by God to prepare us for extraordinary leadership? Don’t you love the way God recycles pain, even rejection by others, to make us better [...]
Submission
By: JL P | January 4, 2009
Is the example of Jesus’ earthly submission to the Father a model of a wife’s submission to her husband?