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Too Pretty To Pastor? #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear
By: Angela Hurst | April 26, 2017
I read Sarah Bessey’s recent thread #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear with fascination. As I perused the comments, I was both amused by the absurdity of it all and grieved by the negative impact these sexist statements have on the community of God. This Twitter dialogue garnered so much attention that it was picked up by secular media, [...]
3 Ways The Church Can Love Sexual Assault Survivors
By: Rachel Asproth | April 24, 2017
In stumbling after Jesus, the church has sometimes faltered. Sometimes, we’ve been the ones holding women’s bruised and bleeding hearts in our fists. And sometimes, for all our good gospel intentions, we’ve done the wounding.
The "Billy Graham Rule" Strikes Again... In the Second Century Church
By: Jamin Hübner | April 19, 2017
The rule implies that male-female relationships primarily consist of sex instead of viewing male-to-female relationships as a subset of the more fundamental human-to-human relationship.
55 Things Only Christian Women Hear
By: Rachel Asproth | April 19, 2017
Last night, Sarah Bessey (we’re fans!) began a conversation about the strange, sexist, abusive, and toxic things Christian women are told on a regular basis. We’ve collected some of the most powerful tweets so far in a list--follow the ongoing conversation happening on twitter under #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear.
Does Scripture Subjugate Women Or Do We?
By: Amy R. Buckley | April 6, 2017
Context matters. I heard it all the time in seminary. It’s no small thing to translate biblical passages from Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek into English. This requires getting into the minds of the biblical authors to figure out what they intended to say to specific people in certain situations at a specific time in [...]
Biblical Equality and the Letters of Paul
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | April 5, 2017
Do egalitarians overlook the deeper truths of Scripture to promote social-economic equality? Does our commitment to biblical gender equality render us secular wolves dressed as biblical lambs?
Why Christians Can Do Better Than The "Billy Graham Rule"
By: Tina Osterhouse | April 3, 2017
My first lesson on the dangerous pitfalls of sexual sin and subsequent public scandal came one ordinary day in 1988. I arrived home from church to my dad sitting in his comfy chair, mesmerized and leaning close to the television. Popular televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was confessing to millions of people that he had sinned against God [...]
Calling All Egalitarians To Courageous Advocacy
By: Tina Osterhouse | March 28, 2017
The issue of inequality in the church has been a burr under my saddle since I was eight years-old. God gives gifts without discrimination and partiality. Male and female, together, make the church.
3 Ways Women Shape Theology
By: Rachel Asproth | March 24, 2017
What happens when the hall of theology becomes an echo chamber? What happens when half the sky meets God but the church doesn’t want to hear their story? What happens when the theological insights of women are pressed to the margins of Christianity?
Journey Into Priesthood: Egalitarian Women Making History
By: Sarah Rodriguez | March 21, 2017
Last week, we wrote about the life and work of Jo Anne Lyon, the first female general superintendent of the Wesleyan Church. This week’s article will focus on Rev. Dr. Emily Awino Onyango, an Anglican priest ordained in her native Kenya.