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Women and Words: The Intersection of Culture and Bible Translation with Mayra Ugalde: Part 3
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International, Mayra Ugalde | May 2, 2025
In this episode of Mutuality Matters, the focus is on the significance of Bible translation and its impact on women's lives worldwide, especially in Latin America.
The Extraordinary History of the Extraordinary Call
By: Joan Brown | May 1, 2025
Joan Brown traces the chronology of the “extraordinary call,” the condition under which women could be permitted to preach in exception to what was understood as the Pauline rule that women “ought not to teach” (1 Tim 2:12).
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
By: Michaela Rollins | May 1, 2025
Michaela Rollins introduces us to the “prison diary” of Perpetua and Felicitas, who, in the early third century, fearlessly embraced the calling to be martyrs for their new faith in Jesus.
Women’s Work: Vocation in Exodus 2:1–10
By: Jennifer M. Gash | May 1, 2025
Jenn Gash studies how the group of women who played a saving role in the infancy narrative of Moses ended up subverting the rule of Pharaoh.
Re-Oranting the Church: Metaphor and the Erasure of Image-Bearing
By: Daniel Schwabauer | May 1, 2025
Daniel Schwabauer reads the injunction that women cover their heads (1 Cor 11:3-5) in the light of the orant, the males and females in the early centuries of the Church who stood before a congregation to offer up prayer.
Book Review: Finding Hagar: God's Pursuit of a Runaway
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | April 29, 2025
Finding Hagar is a good corrective read for biblical scholars as well as for Christians with negative attitudes toward Hagar, Ishmael, and Arab peoples, and it provides encouragement for any who feel unnoticed in a subservient position
Book Review: Before You Were Born, I Anointed You: Uncovering Scripture's "Hidden" Female Prophets
By: Michelle Eastwood | April 25, 2025
Anna Beresford’s Before You Were Born, I Anointed You argues that the Bible has more female prophets than is commonly recognised, but their prophetic work is obscured by stereotyped, masculinised understandings of prophecy.
Recognizing Black Women's History Month
April 24, 2025
This week, CBE highlights the breadth of insight Black women have provided as we pursue the mission of women's biblical equality.
Women in Scripture and History: Who was Mary Magdalene really? with Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt
By: Kimberly Dickson, Jennifer Powell McNutt | April 17, 2025
In this episode, Kim talks to Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt about Mary Magdalene. Together, they explore the Biblical witness of Mary and how she came to be historically viewed as a prostitute."
Easter Mourning
By: Juliann Bullock | April 17, 2025
What do we do with grief when we are supposed to celebrate Jesus's resurrection? This week, we are invited to join Mary Magdalene and the cloud of witnesses throughout church history who have sat with the pain and bewilderment of grief and unanswered questions.