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Recovering from Religious Patriarchy

By: Heidi I. Knapp, Patrick J. Knapp | June 5, 2025

Leaving a controlling religious group may feel impossible, but there are tools to foster recovery and hope for a future of freedom.

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What Are We Debating, Anyway?

By: Aaron K. Husband | April 10, 2025

What is at stake in the debate about women's equality? Aaron Husband shares why he thinks it is the question of women’s very humanity.

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Healing from Hierarchy

By: Jazmine Lawrence | March 20, 2025

Jazmine Lawrence shares how God has healed her from the physical, emotional, and spiritual damage of hierarchy.

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Family and Mutuality with Rev. Dr. Emily McGowin

By: Dr. Emily H. McGowin, Tara Korpi, Todd Korpi | March 14, 2025

In this episode, we’re joined by Rev. Dr. Emily McGowin, professor of theology at Wheaton College and author of the new book Households of Faith, to discuss the theology of family. 

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Book Review: Tears on the Altar by Maturu Milly Erema

By: Jessica Fleck | February 18, 2025

In Tears on the Altar: The Controversy Over the Clergywoman’s Ministry in Biblical Perspective, author Maturu Milly Erema gives an astoundingly concise overview of biblical texts that support women in ministry leadership, as well as passages that are used to prohibit women’s giftings. 

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Home, Church, and World: Mutuality and Masculinity with Zachary Wagner: Part 2

By: Zachary Wagner, Tara Korpi, Todd Korpi | February 14, 2025

This episode is a part of a segment of the Mutuality Matters podcast, hosted by Tara and Todd Korpi. In this segment we discuss headship theology––dynamics of power, authority, and gender, and how they function in Christian homes, the local church and society.

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The Sexual Violences of Empire, Patriarchy, and Crucifixion

By: Rebekah Mui Pei Ern | February 3, 2025

The cross, instead of representing the dominated, that is, slaves and women, arguably came to represent the dominator.

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Inheriting Church Ministry: The Daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27:1–11

By: Jazmine Lawrence | February 3, 2025

By successfully challenging ancient Israel’s inheritance laws, the daughter of Zelophehad proved that they had “bodies to meaningfully occupy space, voices to be meaningfully heard, and ideas to meaningfully influence the believing community.”

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Where are Your Accusers?

By: Jill Richardson | February 3, 2025

A sermon that fleshes out a Jesus who “won’t stand for people using women or for meting out unequal justice between the sexes.”

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The Wife as a Training Ground: Complementarian Theology and Coercive Control

By: Bethany Jantzi | February 3, 2025

Complementarianism can create the opportunity for the husband to mimic the behaviour of a domestic abuser, deploying coercive control under the cover of biblical sanction.

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