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New Testament Limits of Authority and Hierarchical Power
By: Del Birkey | July 31, 2001
There are six evident restrictions on authority that Christ the Head authorized and that apostolic missionaries set in motion in the New Testament house churches. These biblical boundaries of authority (exousia) unveil the extent to which complementarians practice masculine domination among God’s people.
Ordained Women of the Patristic Era
By: Darrell Pursiful | July 31, 2001
For some time, the advocates of an institutional, hierarchical, orderly, and preeminently masculine vision of the church have undoubtedly been the winners, and they have been permitted to frame the discussion.
Biblical Equality in the Moravian Church
By: Peter Vogt | July 31, 2001
One aspect in the life of the eighteenth-century Moravian Church has gone almost unnoticed, even among modern Moravians: the fact that women shared many of the pastoral responsibilities within the church, wrote spiritual autobiographies, received ordination, and even engaged in preaching
Editor's Reflections | Summer 2001
By: Carol R. Thiessen | July 31, 2001
Do you enjoy history? If so, you will have a particular interest in this issue.
The Woman Beside the Man: Sarah’s Place in God’s Plan
By: Dan Gentry Kent | July 31, 2001
In the vital story of God’s establishing his covenant with Abraham, we may think that Sarah played an almost passive role. She was the woman behind the man. However, at times Scripture gives Sarah a much more prominent place than we usually realize.
The Woman Behind the Man
By: Dan Gentry Kent | April 30, 2001
A number of years ago a Baptist men’s group in the panhandle of far West Texas wanted to have a ladies night. They invited their wives and girl friends, and they invited me to be their speaker. They assigned me the following rather traditional topic: “The Woman Behind the Man.” They thought that was [...]
The Parable of the Blue Reflector
By: Nancy K. Ferrell | April 30, 2001
Let us point the way to signs of racism and exclusion that are often not seen by those not affected by them.
Jesus and Family Values
By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | April 30, 2001
We who seek to be Jesus’ faithful disciples must be very careful not to put words in Jesus’ mouth that he did not speak. We cannot promote what we wish Jesus might have said, but, to the best of our ability, we must accurately reflect what he did say. Nowhere is this caveat so needed [...]
I Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You
By: Michelle E. Robbins | April 30, 2001
Who are we, Jesus, to demandproof from you of your integrity? We are as nothing; a mere speck of dust in the sphere of the universe.
My Soul Has Died...
By: Michelle E. Robbins | April 30, 2001
My soul has died a thousand deaths;My pain and anguish has no limit to cry a thousand oceans to ache with intensity unmeasurable the unsharable agony of my existence.