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A Dirty Word or Good News?
By: Liz Mosbo VerHage | December 5, 2007
I later learned that common conceptions of ‘evangelical’ were shaped by memories of fire and brimstone pre-millennial tent revivals, or perpetuated by negative caricatures of tele-evangelists or mega-church sales gimmicks asking for money.
Women Interpreters of the Bible
By: Marion Taylor, Heather E. Weir | December 5, 2007
Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), and Elizabeth Baxter (1837–1926) are three foremothers of faith who have left us an extensive legacy of published works.
“I Received My Commission From Him, Brother”
By: Jennifer Lynn Woodruff Tait | December 5, 2007
These were among the first women to find in Methodism a liberating power to preach the gospel, but they were not the last. A qualified openness to women as spiritual leaders and preachers carried over into early American Methodism
Lessons from the Female Cherokee Seminary
By: Wade Burleson | December 5, 2007
With the help of missionaries named Samuel Austin Worcester and Elizur Butler who had traveled The Trail of Tears with them, the Cherokees at Park Hill began a seminary for women in 1851.
A Forum of Sensible Voices
By: Brandon G. Withrow | December 5, 2007
Whether rich or poor, black or white, male or female, free or slave, egalitarians of the nineteenth century called the world to answer for its oppression of those made in the image of God
Editor's Note: We are Pioneers for Jesus
By: Chelsea DeArmond | December 5, 2007
But authors in this issue of Mutuality provide many examples of amazing evangelical pioneers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries whose commitment to biblical authority and to fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commission convinced them that women needed to be free to use their ministry gift s and equipped to answer God’s [...]
Making Biblical Decisions
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2007
Recently a CBE member sent me a note reminding me of the consequences of coming to the right conclusions regarding women’s service in the church. He said:
An Irrepressible Legacy
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | December 5, 2007
One of the most important contributors to the biblical basis for women’s ministry was Katharine Bushnell (1856–1946), who wrote perhaps the most extensive biblical treatment of gender ever published.
We Are More Than Just a Body, But...
By: Liz Sykes | December 3, 2007
The body is what is seen by sighted people, and maybe here lies a clue! Sight-impaired people have a distinct advantage in that they are not affected by what people look like, and even the expression on a face is lost to the blind person. I know that when I was marking correspondence lessons for [...]
Deuteronomy on 'Marriage'
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | November 29, 2007
'If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty placed on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.' (Deuteronomy 24:5)This was actually the second instance of Scripture I noticed in [...]