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The Very Good News for Women for Such a Time as This?
By: Lisa Sharon Harper | August 1, 2019
Lisa Sharon Harper takes us back to the beginning with deep exploration of Genesis 1-3 and considers its profound implications on the lives and calling of women right now.
Revisiting Eden: Genesis 2 as a Description of the Creation Story
By: Havilah Dharamraj | August 1, 2019
Explorations of Genesis 2 intent on recovering God's ideal for the interrelationship between male and female often zoom in on the creation of Eve. We are better able to appreciate how the narrative supports that ideal when we engage the whole chapter.
What to Say If Someone Says Women Are to Be Men's Helpers
By: Chesna Hinkley | June 12, 2019
Many Christians believe that strict gender roles—men lead and women submit—are God-ordained. They attempt to find support for this claim in Genesis, pointing to “creation order.”
Lessons from Eliezer: What an Old Testament Matchmaker Has to Say About Egalitarian Dating
By: Kay Bonikowsky | June 5, 2019
Dating is difficult in today’s culture. As I have counseled single women and men through the years, I often heard pleas for help to find a Christian person to date. And let’s be honest. There are many different kinds of Christians. How does one get help to find a similar kind of Christian? [...]
What to Say When Someone Says that Patriarchy is God's Plan
By: Chesna Hinkley | April 10, 2019
Some say gender hierarchy is God’s perfect design—a pristine plan for women and men’s good and flourishing. They point to Genesis, arguing that God clearly intended patriarchy from the start. But the text tells a different story.
Struggles with Biblical Interpretation: A Personal Journey to Biblical Equality (Finnish, English)
By: Jussi Suutari | October 26, 2018
In this workshop, Jussi Suutari will discuss some verses (e.g. Eph. 5) that were important to him during over his own personal struggle with the Bible. The conflict grew out of hierarchical teachings he was hearing on some verses in Paul's letters, since through his own Bible reading he was seeing the overall egalitarian message [...]
Created for Partnership ... Especially through Mutual Intimacy (Finnish, English)
By: Patti Ricotta | October 23, 2018
When rightly understood, Gen. 2:24-25 and Eph. 5: 21-33 provide an almost formula-like description for a pleasurable, loving, faithful marriage of oneness built on equality and mutuality. Modern science teaches what the writers of Genesis and Ephesians could not have known.
Compiling the Themes of the First Day: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Reconciliation (Finnish, English)
By: Kari Kukkanen | October 23, 2018
2018 “Created for Partnership” CBE International Conference Kari Kukkanen is a long-time board member of RaTas, Christians for Equality. He has retired from the teacher position at a Christian College in Helsinki. He has two adult sons.
The Genesis of Equality (Finnish, English)
By: Kevin Giles | October 2, 2018
Theologians are generally agreed that Genesis chapters 1 to 3 are foundational to biblical revelation, and in particular to a right understanding of the male-female relationship.
Is the Gospel the Antidote to Misogyny?
By: Dorothy Greco | August 14, 2018
Given our legacy of broken relationships and deeply entrenched misogynistic practices, how can we follow Jesus’s example and create a culture where the full flourishing of both men and women is normative?