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Abigail, the Prophet and Peacemaker
By: Cory Driver | August 28, 2025
Abigail, who acts as a prophet, interrupted and undermined multiple generations of retributive violence that began in Genesis between Esau and Jacob, and taught David a valuable lesson on godly leadership.
Racism and Sexism: The Groans of a New Creation
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | August 19, 2025
Lament helps open necessary space to sit with our complicity and pain, to wait on God’s transforming power, and to seek wisdom of leaders at the margins who know best the logic of patriarchy and thus more viable, lasting solutions.
Separate but Equal: The Great Lie behind Jim Crow and Progressive Complementarianism
By: Greta L. Bennett, AJ Fletcher | August 19, 2025
There is no reason for progressive complementarians to limit how God uses women in ministry. They may claim equality, but much like the Jim Crow laws, such equality is a lie and the “insistence that ‘equal worth’ manifests in unequal roles” lacks biblical precedent.
War on Women: Roman Misogyny for Military Aim
By: Heather Preston | August 19, 2025
In the case of Rome, the glory of an empire became synonymous with the glory of heavenly favor. This is a dangerous misappropriation we see modeled by nationalist political groups today.
Book Review: Tools for Ministry Leaders to Help Victims of Abuse
By: Andrea Calvert | July 24, 2025
Cecilie Croissant hopes that Tools for Ministry Leaders to Help Victims of Abuse “will be a valuable manual that will inspire Christian leaders and believers to pursue further training and study to begin to change the existing faulty mindsets” (Preface) surrounding abuse in their ministries. It’s clear that she has experience helping women in abusive circumstances [...]
Who Gets to Read Scripture at Church?
By: Marla Price | July 17, 2025
When sexist theology appears on her church's worship team, Marla is faced with heartache and a choice: Will she find a new place to worship, or stay?
Book Review: Forgotten Followers: From Broken to Bold
By: Anna Bernin-Mallin | July 1, 2025
A novel that follows Jesus’s ministry through the eyes of Jesus’ mother, Mary, his disciple and financial supporter Joanna, and Mara, a fictional character that the author imagines as Mary’s sister-in-law, the wife of Joseph’s brother Clopas.
Book Review: The Concept of Woman: A Synthesis in One Volume
By: Jennifer Venable | June 24, 2025
This synthesis of Prudence Allen’s three-volume work is an exploration of the history of philosophical anthropology and women in the Catholic Church.
Fighting Power Imbalances at the Intersection of Gender and Race
By: Iris Goicochea | June 19, 2025
A ministry of reconciliation exposes our deep-seated sin—including the sins of racism and sexism. Let us examine our churches to find out if those in power are treating the historically disadvantaged poorly.
Book Review: Galatians: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible
By: Donna Clawson | June 10, 2025
Kathryn Greene-McCreight’s commentary is a well-organized approach to Paul’s letter, utilizing typology as the interpretive framework.