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International Women’s Day: Honoring Women’s Fight for Equality
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2026
In March, CBE celebrates both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Perhaps there’s no better time to celebrate women’s battle for the vote alongside their spectacular courage in leading the abolition of slavery. Gaining the vote, freeing the enslaved, and exposing the abuse and prostitution of women was exceedingly dangerous work because it challenged [...]
Let Them Learn: Why Theological Formation Still Matters, Especially for Women
By: Cynthia Degrie | January 14, 2026
As churches increasingly downplay theological education, believers are left spiritually undernourished—and women bear the greatest cost. This article explores how denying women access to deep theological formation weakens their spiritual agency, leaves them vulnerable to misuse of Scripture, and distorts discipleship. By recovering Jesus’s model of training and commissioning both women and men, [...]
Book Review: Empowered Voices: Scandinavian Women in Early Pentecostalism
By: Alexis Withers | December 18, 2025
In the book Empowered Voices: Scandinavian Women in Early Pentecostalism, author Jan-Åke Alvarsson has concluded that male dominance within executive church positions has directly influenced this phenomenon.
Author Of Fiction, Author Of Faith: The Theology of Dorothy Sayers
By: Josephine Stringer | December 5, 2025
Novelist Dorothy Sayers used the power of story to invite readers to the mysteries of God.
Catharine Beecher’s Moral Theology
By: Morgan Esterline | December 5, 2025
A pioneering educator and influential theologian, Catharine Beecher helped reform public thought about women’s education.
All Shall Be Well: Julian of Norwich Medieval Mother of Theology
By: Janet Warren | December 5, 2025
Julian of Norwich’s visions and beautifully imaged theology reshaped Christian spirituality in the Middle Ages and beyond.
Women Writers in Early Christianity: Their Courage, Leadership, and Legacy
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2025
Thanks to the many women writers throughout history, we have today written witnesses of their lived experiences—not from onlookers, redactors, or family members overcome by strong emotions and motives—but their story in their own words.
Priscilla and the Explosion of Women Church Planters Today: The Great Commission Is Not a Competition
By: Terran Williams | October 30, 2025
We should not look at women today through a mistranslation or interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:12 or any verse, but through the Great Commission, in which Jesus was emphatic that the whole church participate. Can a woman teach and preach and plant a church and care for those that she gathers? In sum, yes!
Priscilla and the Explosion of Women Church Planters Today: Priscilla, the Pastor-Teacher
By: Terran Williams | October 16, 2025
There are three places where Paul emphasizes spiritual gifts as the determinant for who does what in a local church: 1 Corinthians, Romans, and Ephesians. Well, it turns out that Priscilla was involved in all three of those churches. The evidence seems to show that she had been freed up to use the gifts that God [...]
Women in Scripture and Mission: Bakhita
By: Kimberly Dickson | October 7, 2025
Bakhita’s faith strengthened her to defy the abuses of human trafficking and racism. Her story reminds us that all people—with their different stories, colors, and backgrounds—reflect the image of God and are, therefore, worthy of dignity and respect.