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“Never Be Alone with a Member of the Opposite Sex”: Is the Billy Graham Rule Effective?
By: Marie-Noëlle Yoder, Thomas Poëtte | January 9, 2025
While "Billy Graham rule" may seem to be an effective firewall in addition to being easy to put into place, it rests on some questionable assumptions. It fundamentally presupposes that a personal relationship between a man and a woman is riskier than it is beneficial. In addition, this rule is based on a very contestable [...]
The Calling We Missed
By: Aaron K. Husband | August 8, 2024
For the longest time, I assumed Genesis 2:18 meant the husband was the leader of the family and the wife was the subordinate helper. Yet, as a man, I’m also called to be an ezer, a helper—a strengthening companion—to those around me, helping them choose the way of life over death.
Book Review: The Biblical World of Gender: The Daily Lives of Ancient Women and Men
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | July 16, 2024
This volume of essays is a thought-provoking read that would enlighten any student unfamiliar with feminist approaches to the Bible and inform someone interested in issues related to biblical equality. For professors or pastors, the book might challenge perspectives they learned in university and seminary.
Did Adam Sin by Failing to Lead and Protect Eve in the Garden?
By: Mike Davis | July 4, 2024
One of the things I have noticed is that Adam’s sin in the Garden is often portrayed as not only eating from the forbidden tree but also as abdicating his leadership and protection of Eve. But when we look more carefully at the text of Genesis 2:16–3:17, we can see that such conclusions are wrong.
"Talking with a Woman..."
By: Neil Rees | June 20, 2024
Did the disciples realise how much their thinking was impacted by the powerful forces that shaped the world they had grown up in, with its cultural norms surrounding the place of women, reinforced by both implicit and explicit instruction? Did they have any idea to what extent the patriarchal system that they unreservedly embraced was [...]
Do Egalitarians Believe Women and Men Are Interchangeable?
By: Retha Faurie | May 30, 2024
Don’t you sometimes wish you could help people understand you better? Or at least that, when disagreeing with you, they would engage your actual arguments and not straw-man versions of them? Today, I want to draw little pictures to help correct a common misconception about egalitarianism: the idea that we think men and women [...]
Are Things Changing for Women in the Majority World Church?
By: Kimberly Dickson | May 16, 2024
In Philip Jenkins’ study of global Christianity, he states, “Over the last century . . . the center of gravity in the Christian world has shifted inexorably . . . southward, to Africa and Latin America, and eastward toward Asia.” So my heart and mind ask, “Are things changing for women in the majority world?”
Humility: The Path for Male-Female Relationships
By: John McKinley | April 29, 2024
John McKinley proposes that Christlike humility such as was practiced by the NT church is the means by which abusive male-female power relations can be deconstructed.
Victim Blaming and the David and Bathsheba Narrative
By: J. Dwayne Howell | April 29, 2024
Dwayne Howell illustrates through the story of Bathsheba and David how social power structures result in exploitation, and questions the reading of Bathsheba—influenced by hierarchy—that seeks to blame the victim and absolve the perpetrator.
Women and Men: A Biblical and Theological Perspective
By: Ian Payne | April 29, 2024
Ian Payne teases out the threads that constitute the equality of women and men, through the imago Dei, both at creation and in the reality of the new creation that Christ brings us into.