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Living into the Hard Choices

By: Dee Dee Risher | March 5, 2003

I’ve been drawn to a powerful but obscure story nestled in the Hebrew Bible. I’ve come to see the story as a metaphor for the struggle we all face in seeking to incarnate God’s way of justice and peace in our unique situations. In 2 Kings 4:8–37, we find the tale of an [...]

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Growing a Multicultural Organization

By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2003

The student council at the seminary I attended called a special meeting to decide one matter: Should supporters of biblical equality have access to student funds to host forums on gender equality, when only a portion of the student body supports this position? In fact, should gender egalitarians be represented on student council at all?& [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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