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Lessons from the Female Cherokee Seminary
By: Wade Burleson | December 5, 2007
With the help of missionaries named Samuel Austin Worcester and Elizur Butler who had traveled The Trail of Tears with them, the Cherokees at Park Hill began a seminary for women in 1851.
A Forum of Sensible Voices
By: Brandon G. Withrow | December 5, 2007
Whether rich or poor, black or white, male or female, free or slave, egalitarians of the nineteenth century called the world to answer for its oppression of those made in the image of God
Editor's Note: We are Pioneers for Jesus
By: Chelsea DeArmond | December 5, 2007
But authors in this issue of Mutuality provide many examples of amazing evangelical pioneers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries whose commitment to biblical authority and to fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commission convinced them that women needed to be free to use their ministry gift s and equipped to answer God’s [...]
Making Biblical Decisions
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2007
Recently a CBE member sent me a note reminding me of the consequences of coming to the right conclusions regarding women’s service in the church. He said:
An Irrepressible Legacy
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2007
One of the most important contributors to the biblical basis for women’s ministry was Katharine Bushnell (1856–1946), who wrote perhaps the most extensive biblical treatment of gender ever published.
We Are More Than Just a Body, But...
By: Liz Sykes | December 3, 2007
The body is what is seen by sighted people, and maybe here lies a clue! Sight-impaired people have a distinct advantage in that they are not affected by what people look like, and even the expression on a face is lost to the blind person. I know that when I was marking correspondence lessons for [...]
Deuteronomy on 'Marriage'
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | November 29, 2007
'If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty placed on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.' (Deuteronomy 24:5)This was actually the second instance of Scripture I noticed in [...]
Servant Leadership or Christian Service?
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 28, 2007
How many of us feel uneasy when we are told that men, rather than women, are called to be "servant leaders?" Perhaps we are confused by this notion—that men alone are to be "servant-leaders"—because it contains an important truth though it carries that truth only part of the way. What do I mean?
The Whole Gospel for the Whole World
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 21, 2007
How many of us come from traditions where we have been told that women cannot serve in positions of leadership because Jesus was male? And, as denominations consider where women may hold positions of service, inevitably the gender of Jesus becomes a consideration. Previous generations of Christians have also asked important questions about the gender [...]
'Girls: Dress Responsibly' or 'Boys: Be Responsible?'
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | November 19, 2007
I came across a young woman's blog the other day who wrote about how much she appreciated and was impressed by the guys in her group asking that all the girls be careful about the way they dressed so that they wouldn’t cause the brothers to 'stumble.' And with great endorsement, she exhorted, [...]