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CBE Celebrates 15th Anniversary
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | March 5, 2003
Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE) has come a long way in 15 years, according to Susan McCoubrie. As CBE’s first membership coordinator, she remembers when the organization’s membership information was organized in a recipe box on a TV tray.
Biblical Reconciliation 101
By: Victoria Peterson-Hilleque | March 5, 2003
Quick Bible quiz: Name one African person in the Bible. Did you mention Hagar, Simon of Cyrene or Apollos of Alexandria? What about the Ethiopian eunuch, or Queen Candace? If none of these characters came to mind, perhaps it’s due to a lack of understanding of the cultural and ethnic forces at [...]
Red and Yellow, Black and White: Racial Inequality in the American Church
By: Julia Bloom | March 5, 2003
To be white and middle class in America is to be a participant in a privileged power structure. Often unknowingly, we lay poverty and discrimination at the door of communities of color. The challenge to white middle-class people who follow Jesus is to begin to notice the cries of pain from these communities.
Editor's Note: United in Word, But Segregated on Sunday
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | March 5, 2003
The church’s attitude toward race is hard to nail down. Most Christians would assert that people are equal regardless of race, and few would openly discriminate against people of color. Yet this spoken equity and unity isn’t always visible on Sunday mornings: Our churches are often painfully homogenous.
The Worldwide Suffering of Women
By: Shari M. Kelly | December 6, 2002
It reads like a tragic novel: Nearly two-thirds of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women. Approximately 6,000 girls are subjected to female genital mutilation each day, and 30% of girls subjected to its most radical form die from the effects. Four million women are sold each year as slaves. In sub-Saharan Africa, 55% of [...]
Feeling Pain in the Body of Christ
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2002
History teaches us that failure to recognize and empathize with suffering is dangerous physically and spiritually. I wonder if something similar has happened in the body of Christ. Part of the body is hurting, but needed change is not being made.
A Painful Issue
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | December 5, 2002
The reality is overwhelming: women are suffering appalling abuses and tragic deaths around the world. But we don’t want to avoid this truth because it’s uncomfortable; noticing and identifying with this pain is important for Christians.
Six Gifts Women Bring to the Church
By: Nancy R. Heisey | December 5, 2002
As with the stories of many other biblical women and churchwomen throughout the centuries, in Hagar we can glimpse some of the gifts that women offer to the church and to the world.
Africa Battles AIDS and Inequality
By: Camilla Swain | December 5, 2002
Dr. Emily Obwaka, a graduate of the University of Nairobi, has worked in a variety of humanitarian and health service settings including with John Hopkins University. Recently, Obwaka has been set free to more fully follow her heartbeat of service to God and to the women of Africa.
Growth Around the Globe: International Members Encourage Equality
By: Harriet Sider Bicksler | December 5, 2002
In many countries around the world, men and women are said to be equal in all sectors of society. The reality, however, is often very different — male dominance often persists in the church and home, with women devalued and expected to unilaterally submit to men. Yet there is hope for women, in part because people [...]