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Getting Naked Later: A Guide for the Fully Clothed
By: Kate Hurley | March 18, 2013
In this book, Kate doesn't offer a magic formula that will bring your spouse to you, nor does she ask you to be content with your "gift" of singleness. With candid humor and refreshing honesty, she shares her own struggles and discoveries as a single person and invites you to come with her on a [...]
Male Dominance and the Honor Shame Social Paradigm
By: TL K. | March 14, 2013
Ancient Roman and Asian societies were honor and shame societies. Their lives revolved around who was honored and who wasn’t. There were two main sources of honor: ascribed and achieved. Ascribed honor was your roots, where you came from, your family, your family achievements (wealth, reputation, etc.). Achieved honor had to do with your [...]
Phoebe: "Helper" or Leader?
By: Allison Quient | March 13, 2013
“I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.” (Rom. 16:1-2, NIV). & [...]
Remembering the Blessed Blandina
By: David C. Cramer | March 9, 2013
For Women’s History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to remember the early Christian martyr, Blandina, whose story is told by (pseudo?) Irenaeus in his “Letter of the Churches of Vienna and Lugdunum to the Churches of Asia and Phrygia”
The Parsonage: Hey, Are You In a Cult?
By: Krista Wilson | March 9, 2013
On moving into the Parsonage I was given a gift: a ring. The ring is symbolic. Two Celtic symbols of the Trinity tipped on their sides, the bottom two points at the very center, touching. We all have one on our hands, some more tarnished than others, worn by daily life and the shaking of [...]
Judging Deborah
By: Allison Quient | March 6, 2013
Many times the leadership of certain women in the Bible is deemphasized because they are in conflict with a pervading thought concerning what women can and cannot do. One notable woman who has needed some explanation from those who say women cannot lead is Judge Deborah.
President's Message: Give us Eyes to See and Ears that Hear
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2013
Injustice, abuse, and suffering are always the result of a distorted worldview. Fortunately, scholars recognize the consequences of interpretative errors.
50 Shades of Broken
By: Jenny Rae Armstrong | March 5, 2013
There are cultural, psychological, and even physiological reasons why some women gravitate toward threatening “heroes” or violent sexual fantasies.
On Modesty and Male Privilege
By: Luke Harms | March 5, 2013
Perhaps instead of focusing on the culturally ambiguous standard of “modest dress” for women, we should worry more about our attitudes toward, and our objectification of, women. Instead of trying to place the blame on women for our own shortcomings, we should do the hard work of re-wiring our brains to remove the influences [...]
Is the Church Safe for Survivors? Examining the Church’s Role in Opposing Rape Culture
By: Laura Robinson | March 5, 2013
Sadly, Christians are just as likely as the rest of society to buy into rape culture and perpetuate rape myths. In an age in which one in four women are assault survivors, this means that twenty-five percent of women may not find the support that they desperately need in our churches.