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Bridging the Egalitarian Gap
By: Rob Dixon | January 2, 2025
For egalitarian faith communities, convergence between our espoused values and day-in, day-out practices should be our goal. In order to avoid the burnout and disillusionment that so many women experience, we must strive to reduce the egalitarian gap whenever and however possible.
Home, Church, and World: How Church Movements Go from Freeing to Restricting Women with Dr. Joy Qualls
By: Tara Korpi, Todd Korpi, Joy Qualls | November 8, 2024
This episode is a part of a new segment of the Mutuality Matters podcast, hosted by Tara and Todd Korpi. In this segment we discuss headship theology––dynamics of power, authority, and gender, and how they function in Christian homes, the local church and society as a whole.
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 [...]
Book Review: A Biblical Case for Women Pastors, Elders, and Deacons
By: Meg Ward | October 22, 2024
Inspired to reach a better understanding of women’s roles inside the church, Knorr set out to explore the original New Testament Greek. A Biblical Case for Women Pastors, Elders, and Deacons is the result. Refreshingly, this book offers a much-needed injection of thought-provoking questions and exciting new avenues to explore.
Home, Church, and World: Penny Preaches with Amy and Rob Dixon
By: Tara Korpi, Todd Korpi, Amy Dixon, Rob Dixon | October 18, 2024
Amy and Rob Dixon who have co-authored the children’s book Penny Preaches join us to discuss their book and raising children to empower women.
Reading Against Abuse: Unhiding Women’s Value in Jesus’s Parables and Our Churches
By: Charel du Toit | October 10, 2024
Jesus’s teachings were all about showing love, compassion, and respect for everyone—including those who were marginalized or whose voices weren’t being heard. By unhiding the women in his parables, we can better understand and appreciate his radical message of equality and justice. This is a vital step towards making the world a [...]
Lucretia Mott: Spiritual Warrior for Human Rights
By: Eliza Hodge Fitzgerald | September 26, 2024
In her day, it was said of Lucretia Mott, “There was...power in her calm, deliberate but pitiless logic that seemed to sway the minds of her hearers even against their will.” In a time when women were often not permitted to speak in public, “she spoke in public because she was conscious of a [...]
Restoring Biblical Truth: Celebrating Patricia Gundry (1937–2024), an Egalitarian Pioneer
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | August 29, 2024
At a time when egalitarian theology was viewed with suspicion at best or, worse, a distortion of biblical truth, imagine the exhilarating freedom of finding an author who centered biblical and historical facts on women. The author I refer to is none other than the egalitarian pioneer, Patricia “Pat” Smith Gundry.
The Class That Changed My Life
By: Ashley A. | August 22, 2024
My mind went back through our organization’s marriage ministry, my class on marriage, the Southern Baptist Church my husband and I had attended. They all taught that wives submit to their husbands. I do not remember them mentioning mutual submission. They never pointed out Ephesians 5:21.
The Calling We Missed
By: Aaron K. Husband | August 8, 2024
For the longest time, I assumed Genesis 2:18 meant the husband was the leader of the family and the wife was the subordinate helper. Yet, as a man, I’m also called to be an ezer, a helper—a strengthening companion—to those around me, helping them choose the way of life over death.