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Book Review: Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life
By: Shirley L. Barron | October 31, 2010
Lynn Cohick's extraordinarily detailed book shows us an accurate reconstruction of women's ways of life in the Greco-Roman world of the first century A.D. The book seems to be aimed toward academics and other well-informed readers . . . Cohick wishes to tell the story of average women, their life passages, opportunities, limits, joys, and sorrows. She [...]
Second Mile Walk
By: Teresa Two Feathers Flowers | October 30, 2010
God of ages has called me to the Second Mile, To walk with my sisters through the Valley. I pray for the strength and the good courage to continue the walk. To be there in the darkness, to be there in the light, The Second Mile is to be there.
Growing Joyfully into the Fullness of Christ
By: Hilary Davis | October 30, 2010
I had the pleasure of worshipping with the Bear-Barnetson family at the annual Wiconi International Family Camp and Pow Wow in Turner, Oregon, in 2008 and 2009, and found myself amazed at the beauty and freedom Cheryl and others expressed as women and as followers of the Jesus Way. Cheryl is Bear Clan, from Nadleh Whut’en [...]
Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: The Rise of Women's Ordination in the Holiness Tradition
By: Michelle T. Sanchez | October 30, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while many American denominations were still silencing the public voices of women in the churches, the founder of the Church of the Nazarene purportedly exclaimed: “Some of our best ‘men’ are women!” Since its founding in 1908, the Church of the Nazarene—like several other major Holiness denominations— [...]
Rhetoric, Religion, and Authority: Pentecostal Holiness Women Preachers Speaking Truth
By: Kristen Dayle Welch | October 30, 2010
As a scholar of rhetoric and as a Pentecostal Christian, I notice that, although rhetoric and religion embody quite different theoretical perspectives, rhetoric, religion, and gender collide when we examine who is given the authority to speak and who is believed within the church.
Gender and the Puritan Mission to the Native People of New England, 1620-1750
By: Jason Eden | October 30, 2010
The Puritans are not known for their egalitarianism. Indeed, the word “Puritan” instead conjures up images of witch-burning, fun-draining, Quaker-persecuting authoritarians who restricted women to a life of dreary housework and perpetual childrearing. There is some truth to this stereotype. Certainly, the typical Puritan minister viewed women as subordinate beings who needed to keep quiet [...]
Editor's Reflections | Autumn 2010 (24.4)
By: William David Spencer | October 30, 2010
I came upon the delightful account of the Wise Women of Waban as I was researching my chapter on “Equality and Native Americans in North America” in the recent book I had the delight to edit with our CBE president, Dr. Mimi Haddad, and my wife, the Rev. Dr. Aída Besançon Spencer, Global [...]
1 Corinthians [IVP New Testament Commentary]
By: Alan F. Johnson | October 28, 2010
First-century Corinth and its challenges were not so different from our own. Upwardly mobile Christians facing radically diverse ethnic, religious, economic and social conditions. The church divided over issues of leadership and authority, sexual morality, gender and worship, marriage and divorce. Sound familiar? Yet as Alan Johnson highlights in this excellent commentary, in the midst [...]
I am Saint Apphia
By: Joe Lunceford | October 27, 2010
You are probably among the masses of people who have never heard my name. It is mentioned in only one sentence in Holy Writ. There were only a very few of us—at least of those whose story was remembered by any except family and close friends. For those few who have read Paul’s [...]
Reverse Sexism
By: H. Edgar Hix | October 23, 2010
A man has to be twice as good a parent as a woman to get child custody. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult.Ouch. Blatantly sexist. A woman has to be twice as good as a man to get the same job. Fortunately, this isn’t difficult. Ouch. Popular coffee cup.