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Domestic Violence: What Every Pastor Needs to Know
By: Al Miles | February 1, 2011
According to the American Medical Association, one quarter of American women will be abused by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Loving support can make a tremendous difference to survivors as they struggle with the difficult process of healing and regaining trust in themselves and others. Often, however, pastoral caregivers possess the [...]
Book Review: Curtiss Paul DeYoung's Coming Together in the Twenty-First Century
By: Mae Elise Cannon | January 31, 2011
Coming Together is a wonderful and thoughtful engagement about how the gospel may be better understood through the eyes of a diverse community. DeYoung touches on some of the challenges and conflicts that may arise when diversity is pursued and embraced; however, he does not offer specific paths, options, or alternatives in pursuing diversity. Nonetheless, [...]
Book Review: The 2011 NIV Bible
By: Bridget Jack Jeffries | January 31, 2011
Now that the 2011 NIV has been released online and is set for full publication in March, fans of the TNIV may be curious how they compare. What follows is an analysis of the updated NIV's treatment of key passages involving women as well as its use of gender-inclusive language. TNIV fans will be grateful that [...]
Half-Light
By: Lucy Lincoln | January 30, 2011
Light shines from / a thousand prisms, / hung on golden filigree, / above the hall below, / where sheltered men / wear sheltering talitot / and stand and sit and / chant a thousand / shadowed words, / which had once been / written bold and in the light. Where are the Deborahs to lead the fight? Where your Huldahs to interpret sacred [...]
The Proverbs 31 "Woman of Strength"
By: Megan K. DeFranza | January 30, 2011
Proverbs 31:10–31 is one of the better-known passages of the Old Testament. Many of us hear sermons preached from this text every Mother’s Day, yet these sermons often miss the meaning of this passage. Many pastors hold up the Proverbs 31 woman as the model for all women, yet they present a distorted and limited view [...]
Navigating Disappointing Friendships
By: Laura M. Rector | January 26, 2011
Last year, I remember having a discussion about advocacy for women with three male colleagues whom I trusted as committed egalitarians. "What should I think about those who say they support my equality and calling, but who hold positions at institutions that clearly do not support women's leadership in the church?" I wondered. "How can [...]
The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
By: Carolyn Custis James | January 26, 2011
This story of two women who have lost everything contains a profound message: God created women not to live in the shadowy margins of men or of the past, but to emerge as courageous activists for his kingdom.
Pass the Pompoms!
By: H. Edgar Hix | January 24, 2011
Come January, I always need a pep talk. Up here in Minnesota, it’s cold, generally gray, and mainly miserable.So, let me offer a brief pep talk about our movement toward Biblical equality and use of gifts. This is really important stuff. It’s dynamite and there are walls to bring down. More accurately, [...]
Reaching the Average Joe
By: J. Lee Grady | January 19, 2011
J. Lee Grady, an award-winning journalist, minister, and CBE advisory board member, says we won't change the culture until we climb down from the ivory tower to reach the "common man." That's exactly what he aims to do with his new book 10 Lies Men Believe.
Unity in Difference
By: Guest Author | January 17, 2011
Equal and Complementary was a hierarchical-complementarian conference held recently in Melbourne, Australia and organised by an informal working group.Kevin Giles, a prominent evangelical-egalitarian, has written a lengthy response to the conference.