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Beauty for Ashes
By: Lisa L. Thompson | March 5, 2009
The bottom line is God did not create any woman to be a prostitute, a stripper, a porn star, or to feel like she must pursue an endless quest for physical perfection.
Beyond Damsels and White Steeds
By: Brian Howell | July 31, 2008
What an understanding of culture’s influence should do is put gross generalizations about the nature of men and women out of reach. Moreover, it challenges us to think about how and why we value particular attributes connected to these gender stereotypes. So often we believe that we are reacting to Scripture or that the [...]
President's Message: Leading Change Through Healthy Friendships
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | June 5, 2008
One historian suggests that “space and race” are the two most prominent features that characterize America. We are a diverse people with lots of room to move. And, we possess the freedom to move through our vastness largely as we choose.
Christian Faith in Pink and Blue
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2008
Missionaries often speak of the invisibility of culture. By that they mean that most of us are not conscious of our own cultural idiosyncrasies. What is more, we are tempted to insist others adapt to our culture, because we view ours as normal and good!
Why Should Men Take a Stand for Gender Equality?
By: Trevor Sykes | June 5, 2007
Women were considered physically and emotionally frail and in constant need of men’s care and protection. These were the values that I grew up with, but I always considered them to be demeaning of women.
Making the Marriage Bed
By: Heather and Fred Gingrich | June 5, 2007
As Christian egalitarians, we believe that marriages should not resemble the master bed, but rather the marriage bed. Such marriages should value intimacy in its multiple facets, the sharing of life as equal partners, mutual submission, and “us” above “I.”
Unstoppable
By: Megan Greulich | March 5, 2007
“We’re in good company then,” replied Peter Furler, founder and lead singer of internationally-renowned Christian recording artists “newsboys,” after I explained what we do at Christians for Biblical Equality. “Yes, I like that.”
What Are You About? Why Are You Here?
By: Tom McCarthy | March 5, 2007
We have left Urbana changed by the enthusiasm for ministry of the many young people we encountered, the dedication of the mission “lifers” we met, and a renewed conviction that the mission of CBE is essential to the life of the Body of Christ in a needy world.
Language Suggestions: Disability
By: Ronald A. Cottone | March 5, 2007
Impairment is any loss or abnormality of structure or function, be it psychological, physiological, or anatomical. A disability is any restriction or inability to perform an activity in the manner or range considered normal for a human being. The restriction or inability results from impairment. A handicap is a disadvantage for a given individual that [...]