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Book Review: Tears on the Altar by Maturu Milly Erema
By: Jessica Fleck | February 18, 2025
In Tears on the Altar: The Controversy Over the Clergywoman’s Ministry in Biblical Perspective, author Maturu Milly Erema gives an astoundingly concise overview of biblical texts that support women in ministry leadership, as well as passages that are used to prohibit women’s giftings.
Eleven Books to Pick Up During (and After) Black History Month
February 13, 2025
If you are ready to learn from our Black sisters, here are eleven books that you can pick up from the CBE Bookstore during or after Black History Month.
Conclave As A Model for Disruption at Its Finest
By: Christine Woolgar | February 6, 2025
Woolgar explores how the film Conclave models a way to participate in large institutions while disrupting unjust situations in anticipation that God can, and will, act in these places.
How One Church Is Growing Toward Full Biblical Mutuality
By: Susanne Maynes | January 30, 2025
Prophesying Daughters author, Susanne Maynes, shares her experience of a church that is growing toward biblical mutuality.
Book Review: Prophesying Daughters: How Prophetic Ministry and Women in Leadership Strengthen the Church
By: Nicole Gibson | January 28, 2025
In Prophesying Daughters, charismatic Christian Susanne Maynes combines her seminary research with her personal experience with prophecy to give readers an entry-level overview of prophecy in the Bible, what prophecy looks like today, and why women should be fully released to exercise this spiritual gift.
Is the Church a Safe Place for Women?
By: Andrew J. Bauman | January 23, 2025
Andrew Bauman shares his research of over 2,800 women and their stories of sexism in the church, and his desire to cultivate a safe church.
Book Review: Safe Church: How to Guard against Sexism and Abuse in Christian Communities
By: Jessica Fleck | January 21, 2025
Bauman uplifts the voices of marginalized women within the Protestant church using clear statistics, the stories of women, and research of others. Safe Church helps women and men understand and address sexism in the church with clear statistics and healthy tools.
Mutuality, Friendship, and Corporeality: Toward a Christian Leadership Model
By: Amber Mann Riggs, Israel Steinmetz | January 16, 2025
Amber and Israel's team’s approach to leadership morphed from one of hierarchy to one of mutual submission as they stepped up as co-leaders. Instead of languishing without a traditional, rigid hierarchy, the ministry team thrived. As we reflect on our season as co-directors, we recognize how its uniqueness drew from a rich, incarnated theology [...]
“Never Be Alone with a Member of the Opposite Sex”: Is the Billy Graham Rule Effective?
By: Marie-Noëlle Yoder, Thomas Poëtte | January 9, 2025
While "Billy Graham rule" may seem to be an effective firewall in addition to being easy to put into place, it rests on some questionable assumptions. It fundamentally presupposes that a personal relationship between a man and a woman is riskier than it is beneficial. In addition, this rule is based on a very contestable [...]
Book Review: Confronting Sexism in the Church: How We Got Here and What We Can Do About It
By: Eliza Stiles | January 7, 2025
In Confronting Sexism in the Church, Matthews persuasively offers a roadmap for naming sexism wherever we find it in the church and striving toward creating church communities in which all God’s people can flourish. Weaving together history, theology, and personal narrative, Matthews’ work is a gift to the church.