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Who First Told the Bible’s Stories and Why It Matters
By: Jeff Miller | May 13, 2020
Oral tradition is important for an egalitarian understanding of the Bible—its origins, development, nature, and relevance—because women were among the key players in this stage of the Bible’s development.
Christ Our Mother?: What Motherhood Reveals About the Love of God
By: Eliza Stiles | May 6, 2020
Julian rightly sees something significant in the loving act of a mother giving birth that can help us to better grasp how deep and wide God’s love is for all of God’s children.
A Tale of Two Sisters: Finding Our Place at the Table
By: Sarah Garay | April 29, 2020
My sister, Becky, was seven years older than me, and trying to prove myself as smart and beautiful as she was would capture my attention well into my twenties. Becky was a wonderful older sister.
Drop the Rope: What We Don’t Notice about Patriarchy
By: Rhesa Higgins | April 22, 2020
In my experience, the belief that white men are superior to people of color and white women is the boulder that these two groups are yelling over and collectively ignoring most of the time.
Christ Is Risen: The Nonsense of a Hysterical Woman
By: Chesna Hinkley | April 15, 2020
How did Mary enter the popular imagination as the femme fatale with a checkered past, made demure and modest by her encounter with Christ? The answer is complicated, but it has much to do with the erasure of other women.
Rising Up with Christ
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | April 13, 2020
May the faith of Mary, the apostle to the apostles, inspire in us a faithful vigilance in our isolation. We will meet and celebrate our risen Lord on Easter beyond the tomb.
Living Water
By: Keren Dibbens-Wyatt | April 8, 2020
This poem reflects on the thoughts and feelings of the Samaritan woman when she encountered Jesus on a routine visit to her town’s well, as recorded in John’s gospel (4:1–42).
3 Ways to Foster Healthy Sexuality in the Church
By: Josiane Ngongang | April 1, 2020
“Healthy” is not exactly the adjective I would match with the word “sexuality,” especially when it comes to the ways the church and Christians have portrayed and lived out what we believe about sex these past few centuries.
Jesus Sees You: Endometriosis, the Bleeding Woman, and Me
By: Lauren Blanco | March 24, 2020
For most of my life I have been socially conditioned to hide my pain, and so I am only beginning to learn how to talk about my disease. Our culture is also slowly shifting in the way we discuss “womanly issues.”
What We Share with Hild of Whitby
By: Sarah Lindsay | March 18, 2020
Hild is one of any number of women who remind us that women have always played a role in leading the church. That role may be constrained or downplayed, but it nevertheless cannot be hidden.