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Breaking the Silence on Women Leaders in the Early Church—A Review of Excavating Women: The Archaeology of Leaders in Early Christianity.
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 6, 2025
Excavating Women sheds new light on the roles of women leaders in early Christianity through groundbreaking archaeological discoveries and analysis.
The Extraordinary History of the Extraordinary Call
By: Joan Brown | May 1, 2025
Joan Brown traces the chronology of the “extraordinary call,” the condition under which women could be permitted to preach in exception to what was understood as the Pauline rule that women “ought not to teach” (1 Tim 2:12).
Re-Oranting the Church: Metaphor and the Erasure of Image-Bearing
By: Daniel Schwabauer | May 1, 2025
Daniel Schwabauer reads the injunction that women cover their heads (1 Cor 11:3-5) in the light of the orant, the males and females in the early centuries of the Church who stood before a congregation to offer up prayer.
Annie Royale Taylor (1855–1922): A Missionary Adventurer in Tibet
By: Ian Randall | May 1, 2025
Ian Randall tells the story of Annie Royale Taylor (1855-1922), a missionary adventurer who dared the icy perils of Tibet.
More Than a Woman: Anne Hutchinson’s Testimony for the Holy Spirit
By: Patrick Oden | May 1, 2025
Patrick Oden unpacks the court trial Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) who with extraordinary courage stood her ground on her insight into pneumatology.
Book Review: Before You Were Born, I Anointed You: Uncovering Scripture's "Hidden" Female Prophets
By: Michelle Eastwood | April 25, 2025
Anna Beresford’s Before You Were Born, I Anointed You argues that the Bible has more female prophets than is commonly recognised, but their prophetic work is obscured by stereotyped, masculinised understandings of prophecy.
Book Review: Recovering from Purity Culture
By: Caylie Cox | April 24, 2025
In Recovering from Purity Culture, Camden Morgante draws from her own experience, therapeutic expertise, and academic research to dismantle the myths of purity culture and give her readers practical tools to overcome damaging thought patterns of shame and erroneous beliefs about sex, purity, and sexuality.
Women in Scripture and History: Who was Mary Magdalene really? with Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt
By: Kimberly Dickson, Jennifer Powell McNutt | April 17, 2025
In this episode, Kim talks to Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt about Mary Magdalene. Together, they explore the Biblical witness of Mary and how she came to be historically viewed as a prostitute."
Book Review: The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today
By: Kimberly Dickson | April 1, 2025
Jennifer Powell McNutt’s latest book covers the life and legacy of Mary Magdalene through biblical interpretative methods, Scripture, Christian history, and its remembrance of Mary Magdalene.
Audio - Examining Julia Smith's (1792–1886) Translation
By: Karen H. Jobes | March 31, 2025
This workshop will take a closer look at Julia Smith’s (1792–1886) translation of Scripture in comparison to today’s modern English versions.