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The Cost of Equality: Missionaries Choose Integrity Over Their Careers
By: Jaime Hunt | December 5, 2003
Today, the Church persecutes some Christians simply for believing God equally gifts men and women.
Mirroring a Creative Creator with Art
By: Camilla Swain | June 5, 2003
For many, it is not only the intellect that needs to receive the message of biblical equality: An individual’s heart and imagination also need to receive the message of freedom and wholeness. The arts are a beautiful tool for guiding us to consider how life could be.
Tracing the Trajectory of the Spirit: Egalitarian Hermeneutics and Biblical Inerrancy
By: Glen G. Scorgie | April 30, 2003
A historical case can be made that Christianity has, all things considered, been good for women. It has not been the mighty agent of gender oppression that it is sometimes made out to be. Still, contemporary Christians can hardly feel smug about the track record of our religious tradition.
Women and the Church in China: With the gospel, missionaries brought new status to Chinese women
By: Cecilia Yau | January 31, 2002
Before the nineteenth century, a Chinese woman’s life was wrapped around three men: father, husband, and son. When missionaries brought the gospel to China, the destiny of Chinese women began to change.
The Place of Women in First-century Synagogues: They were much more active in religious life than they are today
By: Shmuel Safrai | January 31, 2002
In the time of Jesus there was no separation of the sexes in the synagogue and women could be counted as part of the ten individuals needed for a religious quorum. This allowed women to be much more active in the religious life of the community than they are today.
Ordained Women of the Patristic Era
By: Darrell Pursiful | July 31, 2001
For some time, the advocates of an institutional, hierarchical, orderly, and preeminently masculine vision of the church have undoubtedly been the winners, and they have been permitted to frame the discussion.
Biblical Equality in the Moravian Church
By: Peter Vogt | July 31, 2001
One aspect in the life of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church has gone almost unnoticed, even among modern Moravians: the fact that women shared many of the pastoral responsibilities within the church, wrote spiritual autobiographies, received ordination, and even engaged in preaching
The Monstrous Regiment of Women
By: Canon Nigel B. Mitchell | March 5, 2000
It has taken some 3000 years since the time of Deborah, and over 400 years since John Knox, but in the latter part of this century most of us have realized this truth. If God raises up women as leaders, in the military, in secular politics, or in the Church, who are we to take up the [...]
Hidden Africans Of The Bible And Early Church
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | January 31, 2000
All of us have a right to know and applaud the important biblical role played by Africans. People of African descent may claim the deep roots of their ancestors in the Bible.
Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement
By: Sally Bruyneel | April 30, 1998
After languishing in obscurity for many years, the work of Phoebe Palmer (1807-1874) has been rediscovered by church historians and scholars. Palmer was a widely-recognized religious figure in her day—a woman whose concern for the holy life enabled her to transcend the limitations of both gender and denominational affiliation.