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My Soul Rejoices: Empowerment, Prophecy, and Luke’s Gospel
By: Sarah Hardman | December 13, 2019
The story of Jesus’ birth might be the most misquoted and misunderstood story in the gospels. Luke’s gospel account of both the annunciation and the nativity are strikingly unique.
The Mother of God and the Female Body
By: Eliza Stiles | December 13, 2019
From its earliest times, the church has struggled to be a space in which women and girls can think positively about their identities as Christians and the reality of their female bodies.
Saying Yes to God's Disruptions
By: Karley Hatter | December 13, 2019
Disruptions are inevitable in this life. We face circumstances and events in our day-to-day lives that feel like giant mountains, road blocks, and dead ends. Bad things happen to us, our families, and the people we love.
Mary the Brave: Neither Meek nor Superhuman
By: Katie McEachern | December 13, 2019
One Sunday, about a year ago, I was visiting a new church. It was December, and the pastor was preaching about Mary. I was surprised by how well he positioned Mary as an equal to the congregation—neither meek nor superhuman.
Behaving Like Mary: Reexamining Mary’s Encounter with Gabriel
By: Julie R. Frady | December 13, 2019
I recently saw a meme of the Virgin Mary with the words “well-behaved women make history” on it. The meme was a pushback on the pithy saying, “well-behaved women rarely make history.”
Better Together: An Interview with Kristen Padilla and Tara Beth Leach
By: Ellen Richard Vosburg | December 4, 2019
Instead of us focusing on negative comments aimed at women, we were able to focus on the ways in which God is at work among women in bringing sons and daughters to Christ.
Giving Thanks for the Women
By: Sarah Lindsay | November 26, 2019
We are caught in tension between thanks for progress towards gender equality and dismay at the misogyny we see around us. Gratitude for progress does little to ease the pain of sexism by Christian men who tell women in ministry to “go home.”
Who Decides? Transitioning Churches as an Egalitarian Couple
By: Holly Fletcher | November 20, 2019
Life would have been easier, at least outwardly, if we had followed complementarian theology. We might have stayed at our church.
Playground Theologians
By: Jenn Smith Chen | November 13, 2019
I hadn’t found my voice to advocate for myself yet, but even more important than that, I hadn’t quite heard the one voice that did matter, the one voice that would call me to be a pastor.
The Subtle Hazing of Women in Ministry
By: Jill Richardson | November 6, 2019
We were guinea pigs, the women that year and I. We knew—after we had applied and been accepted—that our school had just begun admitting women to the MDiv program, the denomination new to the concept of women in the pulpit.