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...But Words Can Never Hurt Me

By: John R. Kohlenberger III | June 5, 2005

“Daddy, why does God only like boys?” My eight-year-old daughter surprised me with her theological question. We attended a conservative, evangelical church and she was in third grade in a Christian grade school—what were they teaching her?

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How to Teach Biblical Equality?

By: Lidija Novakovic | June 5, 2005

Had somebody asked me in my early twenties whether I would like to go to a seminary and study theology, my answer would have certainly been “No.” 

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Women Illuminating the Word

By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | June 5, 2005

When Minneapolis-based calligrapher and graphic designer Diane von Arx Anderson was invited to work on The Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten illuminated Bible in 500 years, it did not ever cross her mind to refuse.

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Transformed by a New Translation

By: Deborah M. Gill | June 5, 2005

The following story comes from my own life. It celebrates God’s faithfulness to a daughter who longed for her mother to know the joy of encountering God’s Spirit in Scripture.

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The Junior Bible Quiz & Gender Accuracy

By: Deborah M. Gill | June 5, 2005

The Junior Bible Quiz (JBQ) is a children’s discipleship ministry of the Assemblies of God that motivates kids to learn and love the Bible. We have taken the issue of gender accuracy and children’s faith development very seriously.

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CBE Helping College Students Discover their Gifts

By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | June 5, 2005

Yet, for many young women, a consideration of vocation can be limited by an inadequate and inconsistent teaching of the Bible. Too often, female students receive “double speak” from churches and Christian schools.

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True Identity: The Bible for Women & Strive: The Bible for Men

By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen, Arlyn Janssen | June 5, 2005

The new TNIV Bibles for women and men promise to help Christians gain an identity and maturity in Christ: the women’s Bible, entitled True Identity: The Bible for Women, includes the cover description, “becoming who you are in Christ,” and the men’s Bible, entitled Strive: The Bible for Men, says, “becoming the man [...]

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Book Review: The TNIV Bible

By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen, Arlyn Janssen | June 5, 2005

Instead of communicating to young men and women that they are gifted for service to God and joined as partners in that ministry, they reinforce stereotypes of women as focused on marriage and family and men as interested in career and financial security. 

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Editor's Reflections | Spring 2005

By: William David Spencer | April 30, 2005

This issue presents a fascinating record of those Christian thinkers, like myself, who have emerged from conservative backgrounds to a fuller realization of our Lord’s commission to us all to go and preach and baptize.

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Service to Christ—A Personal Journey

By: Michele Guinness | April 30, 2005

I shall take you on my journey from Jewish home to ripe Christian womanhood in stages—role by role, not defining myself by those roles, so much as exploring how I had to find my God-appointed place, in, and sometimes despite, each of them.

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