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An Evangelical Statement on the Trinity
By: Liz Sykes | February 11, 2012
CREDO EVANGELICO SOBRE LA TRINIDAD: Creemos que el único Dios vivo quien creó y reina sobre todo y que es descrito en la Biblia, es un Dios trino en tres Personas co-eternales y co-iguales, cada Persona siendo presentada como distinta pero igual; no como tres dioses separados, sino un Dios compartiendo igualmente honor, gloria, adoració [...]
Is God a Respecter of Persons?
By: TL K. | February 3, 2012
A new article on The Christian Post talks about beliefs that God is male centered, that God prefers males more than females and that God wants Christianity to have a “masculine feel”, whatever that is. Apparently, at a conference for pastors at the Minneapolis Convention Center on January 31, 2012, a well-known complementarian pastor stated that repeatedly [...]
Shifting Footings
By: Scot McKnight | February 1, 2012
Complementarians often shift their footings when it comes to Junia (Rom. 16:7). They want to find some argument on which they can stand to diminish the significance of the woman.
Does the title "Pastor" mean I'm power-hungry?
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | January 31, 2012
I had a conversation once with a pastor and his wife that I have not been able to forget. My husband and I had been visiting that church for a few months and considering the possibility of making it our spiritual home. It was important to us, though, that the church valued women in leadership [...]
Book Review: Mae Elise Cannon's Social Justice Handbook
By: Chip M. Anderson | January 31, 2012
In the Social Justice Handbook, I identified with the passion Cannon has for social justice and the burden she has for drawing others to engage in compassion and action to address the issues and causes of injustice and poverty. Cannon succeeds in connecting her readers to issues of social justice, providing them with resources to [...]
Book Review: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky
By: John DelHousaye | January 31, 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is intended for a broad readership with the aim of uniting those who might otherwise be divided because of their religious and political convictions. The authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism on an [...]
Book Review: Carolyn Custis James's Half the Church
By: Cynthia Davis Lathrop | January 31, 2012
In this, her fourth book, Half the Church, James writes with passion and intensity to encourage women to fulfill God's call on their lives. She says that women make up at least half the church; in fact, she says that women make up 80 percent of the church in China and about 90 percent in Japan (27). James [...]
Common Wedding Colors
By: Joel Boehner | January 30, 2012
Another white bread and red wine wedding walks the well-worn path down the white petal-softened red carpet aisle.
Women's Participation in Community-Based Organizations' Development as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction in Kenya
By: Zablon Bundi Mutongu | January 30, 2012
Women’s participation in development and leadership is not an imposition of our times. It is as old as creation itself. In the biblical accounts of creation (Gen 1:26), the command of God to steward the earth is given to both women and men, meaning that they are both to take leadership in overseeing the wellbeing [...]
The Cost of War for Women
By: Médine Moussounga Keener | January 30, 2012
Africa has been the theater of many wars in the past decades, and the Congos are no exception. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Congo Brazzaville have been in war both simultaneously and at different times. Even though the DRC has garnered most of the publicity in the West because of its size, the [...]