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Audio - Julian of Norwich: A Medieval Feminist
By: Charles Read | March 31, 2025
This workshop will outline the life and teachings of Julian of Norwich (~1343–1416) who lived in medieval England. Julian exercised spiritual leadership in a context where women could not be ordained.
Audio - Unlikely Partnerships: Mentorships Bridging Age, Race, Gender, and Class
By: Kimberly Dickson | March 31, 2025
Despite human frailty, God restores people and nations through the most unlikely of partnerships. Though Eli was tainted by his sons’ corruption, God was not deterred by his humanness. God knew that Eli was the best person to train and mentor Hannah’s son, Samuel. This partnership changed the nation.
The Upside-Down Queendom: Aimee Semple McPherson and Gendered Rhetoric in the 1930s Foursquare Crusader
By: Caylie Cox | February 3, 2025
The followers of the charismatic Christian leader Aimee McPherson devised a way to gain from her giftings while keeping the traditional paradigm of masculine, muscular ministers.
Video - Examining Julia Smith's (1792–1886) Translation
By: Karen H. Jobes | December 23, 2024
This workshop will take a closer look at Julia Smith’s (1792–1886) translation of Scripture in comparison to today’s modern English versions.
Video - Unlikely Partnerships: Mentorships Bridging Age, Race, Gender, and Class
By: Kimberly Dickson | December 2, 2024
Despite human frailty, God restores people and nations through the most unlikely of partnerships. Though Eli was tainted by his sons’ corruption, God was not deterred by his humanness. God knew that Eli was the best person to train and mentor Hannah’s son, Samuel. This partnership changed the nation.
Video - Julian of Norwich: A Medieval Feminist
By: Charles Read | November 30, 2024
This workshop will outline the life and teachings of Julian of Norwich (~1343–1416) who lived in medieval England. Julian exercised spiritual leadership in a context where women could not be ordained.
A Female Teacher in the Third Century
By: Salomé Richir-Haldemann | November 14, 2024
Cecilia reminds us that women have always had a place in the teaching and transmission of the Christian faith. This painting and the story behind it encouraged me. In sharing it, I hope to encourage other women in their ministries—both their recognized ministries and their invisible ones.
Thomas Aquinas’s “Misbegotten” Concept of Women
By: Joe Early | November 1, 2024
A review of the thought and work of the influential medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas on the subject of men and women.
Male Hospitality: The Bible Sets the Example
By: Andrew B. Spurgeon | November 1, 2024
Hospitality, which in many cultures is allocated to the women of the family is a biblical male virtue as well.
Male and Female as Full Gospel Partners
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International, Terran Williams, Chad and Leslie Neal Segraves, Anne Zaki | October 31, 2024
Due to the urgency of the gospel and Jesus’ prayers for multiplied laborers, it is time for Christians to welcome the partnership between men and women more fully. It is time to embrace our sisters together with their brothers as equal teammates. If the Holy Spirit has gifted them, then let us wholeheartedly embrace the [...]