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The Mother
By: H. Edgar Hix | July 30, 2011
Each drop of blood on the road to Golgotha was matched with a thousand tears of mine. I, who held Christmas in my body, saw Him carry the tree and decorate it dank with blood, dark with death. Oh, the carols he sighed. “Father Forgive Them.” “I Thirst.” “Son, Behold Your Mother.” What Father would [...]
Editor's Reflections | Summer 2011 (25.3)
By: William David Spencer | July 30, 2011
Christians for Biblical Equality’s founder, Catherine Clark Kroeger, was one of the most amazing people I have ever met. She defined the words “can do.”
What is Your Inheritance?
By: Beulah Wood | July 27, 2011
Last year when I offered to coach my class of Indian Christian women in preaching, they protested. They said, “Our mothers and pastors taught us Eve brought sin into the world and women aren’t much good anyway. Should we learn to preach?” They went on, “Mothers tell us, ‘Don’t laugh! You’re a girl. Don’t talk [...]
Beautiful Disharmony
By: H. Edgar Hix | July 27, 2011
I just read a beautiful quote in the book “Reconsidering Gender.” The author, Craig Blomberg, is somewhere between the egalitarian and complementarian perspectives. He observes, “Let us agree to disagree with one another in love where we must but give each other as fellow evangelicals the benefit of the doubt when we are all trying [...]
One Flesh, One Purpose, One Rank
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | July 20, 2011
Summer is the season of weddings! Many of us will have the pleasure of celebrating with family and friends as they join their lives as husband and wife. Though we have all enjoyed countless weddings over the years, there always seems to be that one moment in the ceremony where we are hit by the [...]
'Why,' Indeed?
By: Guest Author | July 19, 2011
Lean and lanky, the thirty-something teacher probed the congregation with a practiced eye as he wound down his presentation. Ezekiel "Zeke" (pseudonym) teaches at a secondary school in another country. Backed up by a carefully constructed PowerPoint presentation, Ezekiel shared his passion for sensitively pouring truth and grace into the lives of his students, particularly [...]
Pregnancy and Priesthood
By: Anne O. Weatherholt | July 13, 2011
"How would you feel if you were pregnant and celebrating the Eucharist??!!" The question came at me like the first spear opening a battle. I was a twenty-three year old, a senior seminarian at Virginia Seminary, and it was 1977—the year that the Episcopal church began ordaining women as priests. I was on a theological [...]
Stay at Home Dads
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | July 12, 2011
I've known Jack for many years. He is married to a woman named Geraldine, whom I have known since I was ten. Jack is what people consider a man’s man. He loves football, action movies, video games and would totally run in the opposite direction of a romantic comedy if it weren’t for [...]
Simpler Explanations
By: Blake Hereth | July 6, 2011
When it comes to controversial passages, there is an important advantage that egalitarians have. Because of the intrinsic nature of egalitarianism, there is less explaining to do than in complementarianism, at least in one significant way. Let's consider 1 Timothy 2:12-13. This passage is often used by complementarians to show that it is always and everywhere [...]
"Not So With You"
By: Elizabeth Beyer | July 5, 2011
Clearly, it is easy for us to lose sight of God’s ways and resort to our own default way of doing things. The popular concept of “headship”—the idea that the man is the leader of his wife and family and that he exercises authority over his wife as her spiritual covering and priest— [...]