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Madonna without Halo
By: H. Edgar Hix | March 5, 2018
As yet, the halo has not been painted. / As yet, she is still a Semitic woman / with a dead Semitic son. And yet / the halo will shine no brighter than now, / barely reflecting off bitter tears
Representation Sparks Conversations
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2018
Women leaders' very presence creates conversation because it challenges the single narrative that dominates many Christian circles—leadership is the domain of men.
Never Bashful: Standing with My Foremothers
By: Kimberly Majeski | March 5, 2018
I was thirteen the first time I heard the words, “women cannot be preachers” spoken into thin air and inside the walls of that place where I had always been loved, had always felt safe. The words felt like a stone thrown into the rudder of a ship, they caught me, caused me to heave [...]
My First Time: When Being Who God Made You Isn’t Okay
By: Heather Henderson | March 5, 2018
“Heather has no business being in the pulpit.” The words leaped out at me from the computer screen, screaming at me from an email not written to me, but about me, to two of my male colleagues.
Saying Yes: I Never Wanted to Preach, but My Daughter Needs Me To
By: Emily Summach | March 5, 2018
What good, I feared, would it do my daughter to know that she was equal, but only in theory? How could she envision herself preaching if there were no women to spark her imagination? How could she be what she could not see?
The Gift of Presumption: Giving Our Daughters a World Where They Can Say Yes to God
By: Stepanie Dyrness Lobdell | March 5, 2018
As I watch my daughter mature and develop a rather alarming perceptiveness, I wonder when she will start to notice the vocational gender disparity around her, particularly in the church. Her wide-eyed five-year-old self knows nothing of a world in which her gender has something to say about how she can embody the gifts and [...]
Embodying What Can Be: What Star Trek and Women Preachers Have In Common
By: Tim Krueger | March 5, 2018
Just as it matters who we see on TV, it matters who stands behind our pulpits on Sundays. If the Bible teaches that women and men are both called to lead and preach (and it does), then our churches must reflect it.
We Need to Read Books on Women in History
By: CBE International | March 5, 2018
It can feel like an especially difficult task to identify places where women shaped history. But it’s only difficult because we’re biased against women’s stories and accomplishments, preferring to study and celebrate the historical influence of men. In other words, it's not that women were absent from history; it's that we haven't [...]
How to Be an Ally to Women in the Church
By: Hannah Wilkinson | February 27, 2018
Every week, members of our small group Bible study share their “highs,” their “lows,” and how they’ve seen God this week. A couple of weeks ago, I co-led the group in a discussion on what it means to be both a Christian and a feminist. To begin, women in the group spoke openly about [...]