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Overcoming Barriers
By: Jennifer Sudderth | April 30, 1999
Jesus Christ wants his body to become one—every church, every person. He wants his body to experience the unity with him and with each other that he experiences with his Father. But this unity is hindered by barriers of many kinds.
Biblical Submission within Marriage
By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis | February 14, 1999
What is biblical submission in marriage? What does it look like in an egalitarian marriage? Rebecca Merrill Groothuis responds to complementarian stances on submission in marriage with a look at Scripture.
Faith, Feminism, and Family
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | January 31, 1999
In an incredibly poetic story, we are told of a wise God who made all things and saw that they were good-that is, until it came to the creation of man. Then God saw that it was “not good” that man should be alone. Humanity, made in God’s image, must be relational as God [...]
Mary of Nazareth: Exemplar of Biblical Spirituality
By: Diane Stinton | October 31, 1998
In his presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Luke introduces certain individuals who responded appropriately to the revelation of God in Jesus. One such person was Mary of Nazareth. A closer look at a few familiar passages, the Annunciation and the Magnificat (Lk 1:26-56), reveals certain characteristics of biblical spirituality that are exemplified in [...]
The Forgotten Man
By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | October 31, 1998
There is another important role model in the familiar biblical Christmas story: Joseph. Because we know so few hard facts about this man, it has commonly been assumed that he died before Jesus reached adulthood, but such an assumption is gratuitous. We do not know how old Joseph was or how long he lived after [...]
Mary, Martha and Jesus: A Continuing Reformation
By: Kenneth E. Bailey | October 31, 1998
Reflections on Luke 10:38-42. It is perhaps especially significant for us to look anew at this story as we remember our Reformation heritage.
Wifely Submission in Biblical Context
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | October 31, 1998
All too often people fail to grasp the balanced biblical teaching on a subject because they fail to study the material in its immediate context; nor do they try to understand how the material relates to the totality of Scripture. Few areas have suffered more from these omissions than the subject of wifely submission.
Worth Pondering: Galatians 3:16
By: G. Campbell Morgan | October 31, 1998
When we look at this Man [Christ Jesus] we see the negation of all distinctions. I quote from Paul in the Galatian letter for the sake of conciseness and brevity: “There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male or female; for ye are all [...]
Book Review: Priscilla's Letter
By: Estella B. Horning | October 31, 1998
Ruth Hoppin has spent decades researching Adolf Harnack's hypothesis that Priscilla wrote the biblical Epistle to the Hebrews. A first book, Priscilla, Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, was published in the late 1960s. Since that time additional relevant material has been published, some of it related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. This book [...]
Interpreting 1 Timothy 2:8-15
By: Craig Keener | July 31, 1998
Nearly all nonegalitarian scholars will grant the relevance of context to some extent; everyone recognizes the usefulness of cultural background in biblical interpretation. However, the nonegalitarian approach to cultural context is simply not consistent.