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Q: My Church Does Not Believe that Women Should be Elders...
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | March 5, 2008
Q: My church does not believe that women should be elders, based on the phrase in 1 Timothy 3 that says elders must have one wife. Does this phrase really exclude women and single people from being elders? How should I approach this subject at my church?
The “Facts” About Women or The Truth About God?
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2008
While the church often continues to describe ministry (and life) in pink and blue roles, the truth is that God’s purposes for human beings far exceed narrow gender stereotypes.
Will Somebody Answer That?
By: Brenda Tapley | September 5, 2007
Clearly there are complex reasons why women fail to answer or reluctantly answer God’s call to ministry. Those who do will very likely face a difficult road.
The Story of a Semi-Reluctant Role Model
By: JoAnn Streeter Shade | September 5, 2007
You see, I have been called. Deep within me is a passion for justice, a burning desire to see women freed and systems changed, to see the playing field leveled for all people, regardless of race, gender, economic status, ancestry, or ethnicity.
Answering Those Who Ask: Moving from Defense to a Breakthrough
By: Cynthia Long Westfall | September 1, 2007
To move from defense to breakthrough, women can answer challenges and attacks with a biblical personal mission that is proactive.
Leaders Working Together Across the Gender Divide: Insights from Priscilla and Aquila
By: Jeanne Porter King | September 1, 2007
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy: Gender and Equality in the Bible and our Culture
A Forgotten Pioneer: Julia Kavanaugh's Women of Christianity
By: James Smith III | September 1, 2007
Julia Kavanaugh, an Irish Roman Catholic, was a Victorian novelist and biographer. Her book "Women of Christianity" offers the earliest survey of women’s lives in the Christian tradition. This text refutes the frequent charge of trendiness of egalitarianism, as it was written 150 years ago. It confronts male-dominated history (“great events, dazzling actions”) as pagan [...]
Recovering History: Antebellum Evangelical Feminist Voices in Condemnation of Slavery
By: Kent A. Eaton | September 1, 2007
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy: Gender and Equality in the Bible and our Culture
There is No Longer Male and Female:
By: Lidija Novakovic | September 1, 2007
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy: Gender and Equality in the Bible and our Culture
Beyond Equality to Interdependence: Women and Men in Community
By: Dr. Roger E. Olson | September 1, 2007
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy: Gender and Equality in the Bible and our Culture