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Pandita Ramabai’s Legacy: How Gender-Conscious Bible Translation Impacts Christian Ministry
By: Boaz Johnson | June 15, 2020
Ramabai’s quest for a solution for girls, widows, and low-caste women led her to explore the teachings of Jesus from the book of Luke, which she found in her husband’s library.
Theology and Human Flourishing
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | June 15, 2020
Known as the girl effect, researchers show that when communities esteem both males and females and invest in their potential equally, these communities are more likely to enjoy flourishing.
Invading Homes with Love and Hope: The Courtship and Marriage Foundation in Zimbabwe
By: Herbert Mazonde | June 10, 2020
While the world was preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, an invisible pandemic was quietly yet viciously invading homes. Marriages were at new high levels of distress, punctuated by increased levels of gender-based violence.
Help! Our Babies Are Dying
By: Michelle D. Williams | June 5, 2020
This is an SOS call. We are in a state of emergency. And I am desperately crying out to my white sisters for help. I am writing on behalf of every Black mother, sister, grandma, aunt, cousin, wife.
Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age
By: Mae Elise Cannon | May 26, 2020
Activist Mae Elise Cannon takes us beyond the hashtags to serious engagement with real issues. God calls the church to respond substantively to the needs of the poor, the realities of racial inequity, and the mistreatment of women and the marginalized.
Reforming Mentor Relationships by Rereading Genesis 1–3
By: Patricia Williams | May 20, 2020
This contextual reading notes that Jesus’s death on the cross, represented by Eve’s offspring crushing the head of the serpent, frees humankind from sin’s consequences and reorders concepts of male dominion for all time.
Jesus Sees You: Endometriosis, the Bleeding Woman, and Me
By: Lauren Blanco | March 24, 2020
For most of my life I have been socially conditioned to hide my pain, and so I am only beginning to learn how to talk about my disease. Our culture is also slowly shifting in the way we discuss “womanly issues.”
Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom
By: Kelley Nikondeha | March 24, 2020
Defiant is about the deep work women do to create conditions for liberation in their church, community, and country.
A Faithful Future
By: Ellen Richard Vosburg | March 13, 2020
We wanted to gather a variety of voices in a conversation about the past, the present, and the future of the egalitarian movement. But I’d like to take a brief moment to begin to imagine where we might go in the future.
Nile Mother: The Story of Lillian Trasher
By: Lucinda Yang | March 13, 2020
Lillian Trasher aimed to serve “the least of these” (Matt. 25:40). Her orphanage in Egypt took in abandoned children with physical disabilities and illnesses as well as vulnerable widows.