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Managing Sexual Harassment
By: Lee Taylor | April 30, 1991
This is not an article about the role of women in the church or in the workplace. It is about managerial responsibility to safeguard women on the job. Our laws today say that employers have that responsibility. They must ensure that women are not unfairly treated as sex objects, and that sexuality not interfere with [...]
Poor Little Blind Girl
By: Julie Ann Flora | April 30, 1991
Francis Jane (Fanny) Crosby was born in New York on March 24, 1820. She caught a cold at the age of six weeks, and a doctor prescribed a mustard poultice for her inflamed eyes. Instead of healing them it damaged her eyes. By the age of five she was virtually blind, although she could distinguish between day [...]
Book Review: Call Me Blessed: The Emerging Christian Woman
By: Libbie Brooks | April 30, 1991
Martin provides us with an historical context for the issue of women's roles in the church. She begins by tracing the patterns of male authority in both Old and New Testaments. She also describe some of the more contemporary views on submission of women, and continues with a chapter on how we have actually made [...]
Book Review: Gender and Grace: Love, Work & Parenting In a Changing World
By: Anne Ramirez | January 31, 1991
Van Leeuwen calls upon the church as the family of God to help individual families discover how their unique constellation of gifts can best serve God.
Getting Control: Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
By: Lee Taylor | January 30, 1991
It is useless to deny that women can be victims. Increasingly, the secular press documents it. The Christian press has long acknowledged it in society at large and is now beginning to acknowledge it even within the sacred walls of the church of Jesus Christ. People are also beginning to acknowledge that sexual harassment [...]
“Where Do I Go?”
By: Beverly Herbert | January 30, 1991
I came to see the fullness of the Christian community and church, but was I surprised. I found instead disdain for my impending leadership as a female. I found lack of acceptance for my ministry and my leadership. I heard so many masculine pronouns used and masculine leaders speak that I wondered if there [...]
Pulling Weeds before the Harvest
By: Evelyn Bence | January 30, 1991
Again I felt the tension and fear of choice. Would I stand with the church in power, but that I felt was out of line? Would I skirt the confrontation that would likely cost my life?
More Than “Vacuum Cleaner Commandos”: Affirming Egalitarian Males
By: William David Spencer | January 30, 1991
Recently my neighbor told me about a widower living in double jeopardy. With no homemaking training in his past and no wife to clean up after him, his house was piled high with junk, dirty dishes, and soiled clothes. In addition, he had to share that house with a virtual stranger: his child.
Jesus and the Ministry of Women
By: Roberta Hestenes† | October 31, 1990
There are many models of ministry. Women are as diverse as men in the patterns of ministry they follow. But let's look at the response of this one woman to Jesus to learn more about the place of women in ministry.
Book Review: Veiled and Silenced: The Cultural Shape of Sexist Theology
By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | October 31, 1990
This highly readable book introduces much interesting evidence to demonstrate that subordination of women perpetuates an institutionalized cultural myth rather than a scriptural truth.