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What Are We Debating, Anyway?
By: Aaron K. Husband | April 10, 2025
What is at stake in the debate about women's equality? Aaron Husband shares why he thinks it is the question of women’s very humanity.
Healing from Hierarchy
By: Jazmine Lawrence | March 20, 2025
Jazmine Lawrence shares how God has healed her from the physical, emotional, and spiritual damage of hierarchy.
This, Too, Is Good
By: Mallory Ellington | February 27, 2025
Mallory Ellington shares her journey of declaring her body good. She reminds us that Jesus has not called us to a body size. Jesus has simply called us to himself. We bear the image of God, and that is declared good.
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.
The Sexual Violences of Empire, Patriarchy, and Crucifixion
By: Rebekah Mui Pei Ern | February 3, 2025
The cross, instead of representing the dominated, that is, slaves and women, arguably came to represent the dominator.
The Wife as a Training Ground: Complementarian Theology and Coercive Control
By: Bethany Jantzi | February 3, 2025
Complementarianism can create the opportunity for the husband to mimic the behaviour of a domestic abuser, deploying coercive control under the cover of biblical sanction.
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.
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 [...]