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Restoring Biblical Truth: Celebrating Patricia Gundry (1937–2024), an Egalitarian Pioneer
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | August 29, 2024
At a time when egalitarian theology was viewed with suspicion at best or, worse, a distortion of biblical truth, imagine the exhilarating freedom of finding an author who centered biblical and historical facts on women. The author I refer to is none other than the egalitarian pioneer, Patricia “Pat” Smith Gundry.
Martha the Minister: A Sermon on Luke 10:38–42
By: Alison Gerber | August 1, 2024
Alison Gerber’s sermon profiles Martha, the sister of Mary and Lazarus, as a “minister” in her desire to serve Jesus.
Book Review: Silenced: The Forgotten Story of Progressive Era Free Methodist Women
By: Kimberly Dickson | August 1, 2024
Christy Mesaros-Winckles’s book, Silenced: The Forgotten Story of Progressive Era Free Methodist Women, carefully charts the changes in the American religious landscape that led to the silencing of women in the Free Methodist Church in the United States.
Women in Scripture and History: Bringing Phoebe and Junia to Life with Dr. Nijay Gupta
By: Kimberly Dickson, Nijay K. Gupta | July 19, 2024
Kim Dickson talks with Dr. Nijay Gupta about the New Testament women, including Junia and Phoebe, that he highlights in his book Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church.
Book Review: The Biblical World of Gender: The Daily Lives of Ancient Women and Men
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | July 16, 2024
This volume of essays is a thought-provoking read that would enlighten any student unfamiliar with feminist approaches to the Bible and inform someone interested in issues related to biblical equality. For professors or pastors, the book might challenge perspectives they learned in university and seminary.
"Talking with a Woman..."
By: Neil Rees | June 20, 2024
Did the disciples realise how much their thinking was impacted by the powerful forces that shaped the world they had grown up in, with its cultural norms surrounding the place of women, reinforced by both implicit and explicit instruction? Did they have any idea to what extent the patriarchal system that they unreservedly embraced was [...]
Lost in Translation: Female Elders in Titus 1–2
By: Marissa Franks Burt | June 18, 2024
These two chapters are referenced as key guidelines for church leadership, but an investigation in the original language shows that these guidelines are not what have been traditionally taught.
Victim Blaming and the David and Bathsheba Narrative
By: J. Dwayne Howell | April 29, 2024
Dwayne Howell illustrates through the story of Bathsheba and David how social power structures result in exploitation, and questions the reading of Bathsheba—influenced by hierarchy—that seeks to blame the victim and absolve the perpetrator.
Celebrating Black Women Leaders in Church and Society
By: CBE International | April 11, 2024
April is Black Women's History Month, and in celebration, here are seven resources that highlight specific Black women who've changed the world—and particularly, the church—for the better.
Women’s History Month: The African Face of Global Evangelicalism
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 28, 2024
Throughout church history, women have played no small part in the growth of the church worldwide. According to research today, “the future of Christianity is both female and African.” Consider the phenomenal leadership of women being used by the Holy Spirit to anchor and grow Christianity in East Africa.