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Book Review: She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
By: Mikaela Bell | September 14, 2023
After finishing their survey and best-selling book The Great Sex Rescue, testing popular Christian teachings about marriage and sex and empirically demonstrating the harm caused by patriarchal messages, co-authors Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky received many inquiries from parents of young girls. These mothers (and fathers) wanted to know how they [...]

Liar's Witness
By: J.A. Boone | September 6, 2023
What happens when a wife's submission turns into submitting to abuse and lies? Acts 5:1-10 depicts a woman name Sapphira who submitted to her husband's lie and it led to her own death. Sapphira's story is warning to those who continue to let abuse and violence happen without speaking up. For when God calls us [...]

Bitter Roots and Bitter Herbs
By: Ruth Barron | August 30, 2023
Too often in the church, we do not understand emotion words correctly. Hebrews tells us: “See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many” (12:15, NIV). Many religious leaders use this verse to condemn abuse victims, women like Naomi, [...]

The Way of a Shepherd
By: Beulah Wood | August 24, 2023
Possibly half the shepherds in Jesus’s day were women, and probably half the shepherds of the world today, too, are women. I am one of them.

Battling Imposter Syndrome in the Aftermath of Vocational Ministry
By: Katherine Spearing | August 16, 2023
Women recovering from complementarian spaces often experience imposter syndrome and crippling feelings of shame. Katherine Spearing can relate. She shares how empowering other women helped her overcome imposter syndrome.

Setting the Record Straight: CBE’s 2023 Conference in Brazil
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | August 9, 2023
CBE's 2023 Conference in Brazil set the record straight on women and men in the home, church, and world! Now, Mimi Haddad wraps up the conference with a glimpse into CBE's history with Brazil, shares impactful stories of women experiencing newfound freedom in Christ, and shows how the Spirit continues to move in Brazil today.

Resgatando a Visão Bíblica: A Conferência da CBE 2023 no Brasil
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | August 9, 2023
Vários anos atrás, Deus enviou à CBE uma profetisa do Brasil. Tendo um doutorado em uma instituição no Brasil, ela participou da conferência da CBE na Flórida em 2017. Ali ela conheceu meu esposo, que também nasceu e cresceu no Brasil. Durante o final de semana da conferência, ela compartilhou [...]

God’s World Is Not a Man’s World
By: Hannele Ottschofski | August 3, 2023
Patriarchy is a system that values men and their achievements more than women and their achievements. A patriarchal society is male-dominated, male-identified, and male-centred. The male person is the centre of attention and everything else—or everyone else, including women—are defined by their relationships to men. Oppression of women and girls is often a [...]

From Prostitutes to Priests: How We Imagine Women Matters
By: Elaine Kelly | July 20, 2023
The human imagination has the power to include or erase, empower or degrade women. Throughout history, art has done just this. Mary of Magdala has been portrayed as both a prostitute and a priest. Junia, as a servant and a deacon. The arts can help us imagine women—and all of God's people—as God [...]

2023 CBE Writing Contest—Write for Mutuality!
By: CBE International | July 20, 2023
Do you want to help advocate for the full equality of women and men in the home, church, and world? Then CBE invites you to enter our SEVENTH annual writing contest!