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Jesus, Paul, and Women: Kingdom Mission, Gospel Expansion, and New Creation
By: Todd D. Still | April 28, 2012
This recording examines the pivotal and strategic role of women in the ministries of Jesus and Paul respectively. In addition, it will consider theological and missiological reasons for women’s full and free participation in the church’s mission at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist, Suffragist, and Preacher
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 23, 2011
Sojourner Truth (1797-1887) was an abolitionist, suffragist, preacher, and social reformer.
From the Malls of America to the Destitute of the World
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2011
Do you find yourself reluctant to attend women’s retreats, Bible studies, or conferences because too often they focus on fashion, dieting, women’s emotions, and new forms of abdominal exercises? Are you confused by Christian blogs for women where, again, the discussions center on fashion and appearance? How many times have you perused Christian [...]
An Intellectual and Spiritual Communion
By: Bethany Nelson | March 5, 2010
If you’re looking for a beautiful model of an egalitarian relationship in the midst of a decidedly non-egalitarian culture, the love story of Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879) and Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895) is especially inspiring.
Reforming the Church
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | September 5, 2009
Just as the church was challenged by the holiness and prophetic voice of Catherine of Siena, the church today is renewed by the prophetic voices of those whose lives are shaped by prayer and close communion with Christ.
In the Name of the Gospel
By: Estrelda Alexander | September 5, 2009
Though limitations on women in institutional leadership continue, Holiness and Pentecostal women continue to carry out evangelistic ministries using the venues of revival and camp meetings as well as women’s conferences and conventions.
The Aggressive Christianity of Catherine Mumford Booth
By: Mary Agnes Maddox | July 30, 2008
The American holiness movement of the mid-nineteenth century provided a fertile seedbed for women preachers responding to the Spirit’s prompting. One such woman became the mother of a whole army of daughters, following their heroine into battle for the Lord. It was Catherine Mumford Booth (1829–1890), cofounder with her husband of The Salvation [...]
Catherine Booth, The Salvation Army, and the Purity Crusade of 1885
By: Roger J. Green | July 30, 2008
As the numbers of converts grew, William and Catherine Booth organized that mission into an Army—a Salvation Army, taking advantage of the military imagery so common in nineteenth-century England with all the pageantry that such imagery afforded. The Army grew rapidly in Great Britain, and its ministers (officers) and laypersons ( [...]
A Meditation for Baby Jovie
By: Mindy Withrow | March 14, 2008
Every era of Christian history has been shepherded by faithful women laboring alone or alongside their believing brothers.
Women Shaped the Early Evangelical Movement
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 19, 2007
(Adapted from a paper given at the 2007 annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society) My interest in women and missions of the 1800s is reinvigorated, of late, by a number of experiences I’ve had lecturing at Christian colleges and seminaries around the county. When invited to speak for chapel services, I make an effort [...]