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Who Is Pulling Your Strings? Wisdom for Women Clergy and Leaders
By: Michelle D. Williams | February 2, 2022
As women clergy and leaders, we understand the pressure to perform. Conform. Please. There is always someone in our ear, requesting this, looking for that, demanding change, suggesting alternatives.
Retreating from Retreats: An Egalitarian Vision for Church Conferences
By: Wren Bouwman | January 26, 2022
Let’s create retreats rooted in unity and equality, whose discussions and keynote sessions are more memorable than the crafts and competitions that guided them.
No Longer Male and Female: Why Do We Still Separate by Gender in Church?
By: Vanessa Bickle | January 19, 2022
The issue of women’s ordination overshadows the unrestricted use of gifts in the church. Opportunities to use our gifts are still doled out based on sexist gender ideologies of what it means to be a woman or a man.
The Core of CBE: Galatians 3:28 in Our Past, Present, and Future
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 12, 2022
CBE is committed to being a prophetic voice that elevates women’s equality worldwide and the equality of all “races, classes, and ages due to all sharing the image of God.”
Are We Continuing to Sideline Women in Conversations about Abuse?
By: Katherine Spearing | January 5, 2022
Even as egalitarians, our conversations about abuse in the church are often laced with patriarchy, centering men as authoritative even though they are not the primary victim.
Microscopes and Women's Equality: Looking at the Big Picture of Scripture
By: James MacKenzie | December 29, 2021
What can anatomic pathology teach us about women’s equality? The importance of considering the bigger picture before becoming fixated on little details.
Gender Balance: A Freeing Way to Read, Hear, and Teach the Scriptures
By: Robin Gallaher Branch | December 22, 2021
Crisscrossing both testaments, gender balance looks at the Bible in a way clearly contained within the text itself. It tempers patriarchy. It offers solace to those wounded by misogyny. It invites study and comparison.
How to Teach Mutuality to the Next Generation
By: Kensi Duszynski | December 15, 2021
Gender stereotypes and cultural conditioning make healthy male-female relationships difficult. As parents, mentors, and other parental figures, it’s our responsibility to teach and model mutuality to the next generation.
Come Let Us Reason Together: ETS 2021 Annual Meeting Recap
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 8, 2021
Complementarian colleagues and egalitarian allies welcomed women leaders, including their wisdom and moral agency as necessary in leading the Evangelical Theological Society in the future.
Watershed Moments? Reexamining the Barriers Facing Women in the US and UK Church
By: Katie Christine Gaddini | December 5, 2021
We have had many significant moments in the past thirty years in the journey toward gender equality. The difficulty is that large leaps of progress often leave room for invisible, subtle barriers for women in ministry.