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Support Survivors and Defy Patriarchy in 2018
By: Rebecca Kotz | January 9, 2018
At the beginning of 2017, I wrote a blog calling for women to speak out and use our voices like never before. And did we ever!
5 Definitive Signs A Church Is Invested In Women
By: Andrea Ackermann | November 7, 2017
Here are 5 practices of a church culture that seeks to empower and invest in women, based on what I’m learning through current experience and being graciously taught about the church’s largely unheeded role in the development of women.
#RubyWoo and the God-Ordained Power of Women
By: Shonnie Scott | October 30, 2017
When I was in college I joined a college ministry that told me: “Women can ‘share,’ but they cannot ‘preach. They can teach children and other women out of the Scripture, but they cannot teach men.’” I internalized this. I thought it was heresy for a woman to preach. And ordination was out of the [...]
Bikinis, Bodies, And How We Talk About Modesty
By: Valerie Geer | October 16, 2017
It was a typical summer weekend service at our local church. I was perusing the bulletin announcements about our son’s upcoming youth group trip that included a water park excursion. Amidst the details for the trip was the following blurb instructing students what to bring:
9 Ridiculously Practical Ways for Male Leaders to Empower Female Leaders in the Church
By: J.R. Briggs | September 20, 2017
As a male leader, I have a strong conviction of the need to empower women in their God-given talents, passions, and leadership. Over the past several years, I’ve moved from passive agreement with the idea of women leaders to active engagement and advocacy in order to serve and encourage our sisters for the sake [...]
Why Men Who Oppose Trafficking Must Fight Patriarchy
By: Rebecca Kotz | September 18, 2017
For the last five years, it seems that sex trafficking has become the social justice issue—the cause that everyone can get behind. Diverse groups of people who agree on nothing else are united in their conviction that sexual slavery is evil. Still, many groups diverge over which method best eradicates it.
Announcing the CBE Writing Contest Winners!
By: CBE International | September 14, 2017
This August, CBE International held its first-ever popular writing contest: Write for Gender Justice! Thanks to the creative gifts and enthusiastic participation of our diverse audience of writers, speakers, preachers, advocates, and story tellers, it was a great success!
A Prayer of Action for Egalitarian Women
By: Gricel Medina | September 6, 2017
Today, we rebuke fear—fear of the judgment of other Christians; fear of how they will respond to our God-given callings; fear of landing outside the box of “biblical womanhood”; fear that they are right about our limitations.
Five Ways Pastors Unconsciously Reinforce Abuse, and How to Do Better
By: Natalie Collins | September 5, 2017
All pastors teach their congregants about abuse one way or another. When we preach, lead Bible studies, or interact pastorally or socially with people, the language we use and the way we present topics will either reinforce or challenge an abuser’s narrative.
Creating Evangelical Egalitarian Scholarship and Scholars
By: William David Spencer, Aída Besançon Spencer | August 3, 2017
We want to create opportunities for those underrepresented in the academy, so that women and men serve equally, interdependently, each leading by God’s gifting. This workshop discusses some of the biblical principles important for ministry and presents examples.