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We Can't Ignore Rape in the Bible, Not If We Want to End Sexual Violence
By: Hannah Wilkinson | November 29, 2018
Women live with the real possibility of violence every day. And actually, that shared female experience shapes how I read and interpret the Bible, especially stories that include sexual violence.
The Delight of Daughters: A Theology of Daughterhood
By: Beulah Wood | October 31, 2018
Much has been written about “sonship” and being “adopted as sons” as descriptions of being brought into and belonging to God’s family. Focus is often on the privileges of adoption in Paul’s letters, noting the love, honour, and freedom that follow. In light of this masculine language, we should ask whether women and [...]
Women Builders of the Church: How Women Served Christ from the Early Church to the Modern Era (Finnish, English)
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | October 26, 2018
This workshop will consider the pioneering leadership of women on every continent, from the early church to the modern era.
The Portrait of a Woman in the Old Testament (Finnish, English)
By: Riitta Keskimaki | October 2, 2018
It is good to bear in mind that traditions – whether Jewish or Christian – have not always stayed loyal to the biblical truth. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the value and status of women throughout the centuries.
Women’s Identity is Ezer—a Strong Rescue: Genesis to Revelation (Finnish, English)
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | October 2, 2018
This session considers a whole Bible approach concerning women and leadership. Topics will include creation, redemption and service for women and men created in God’s image and recreated in the image of Christ.
Phoebe: A Story
By: Paula Gooder | September 3, 2018
Paula Gooder imagines Phoebe's story―who she was, the life she lived, and her first-century faith―and in doing so opens up Paul's world, giving a sense of the cultural and historical pressures that shaped his thinking and the faith of the early church.
Wealthy Women in the First-Century Roman World and in the Church
By: Margaret Mowczko | July 31, 2018
In this article, Margaret Mowczko looks at the social dynamic of class, a dynamic that typically trumped gender. She also looks at what the NT says about particular women who were wealthy. Her hope is that this discussion will present a broader, more authentic view, beyond limited stereotypes, of the place and participation of [...]
Tattoos, Debt, and Virginity: What Does the Bible Actually Say to Women?
By: Jill Lin | July 30, 2018
Does God prefer “debt-free virgins without tattoos”? A recent viral article claims that men do, and that women should avoid college, independence, career, and the world—lest they fall into debt and sexual failure and be unattractive to Christian men.
Forget Everything You Think You Know About Mary Magdalene
By: Susan McLeod-Harrison | July 25, 2018
Who is Mary Magdalene to you? Apostle or icon of penitence?
In the Parables, God is Father, Shepherd, and also Woman
By: Jeff Miller | July 11, 2018
And so it is that most Bible readers, even those who know the Gospels well, have never paused to ponder that in Luke’s triad of images for God, one of the three is a woman.