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Five Tips for Navigating Egalitarian Fatherhood

By: Rob Dixon | March 5, 2017

Being an egalitarian father is not for the faint of heart, but here are five tips for thriving in this vital role.

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Delighting in Fatherhood: Four Ways for Dads to Embrace Nurturing

By: Daniel DeVries | March 5, 2017

Fatherhood has been a deeply meaningful and formative experience for me. I love it. When Christians talk about fatherhood, we like to make it about things like leadership, authority, provision, and so on. 

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A Celebration of Dads Who Nurture

By: Tim Krueger | March 5, 2017

My dad showed me that a great father, like a good man, is defined not by strength, but by tenderness. A great father doesn’t run from his feelings, but knows and communicates them. He is fully invested in the nurturing of his children. 

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Defending My Daughters Against Rape Culture

By: Eugene Hung | March 5, 2017

Just as violence against women and girls has its roots in rape culture, rape culture in turn has its roots in a patriarchal worldview. This doesn’t mean that men with a patriarchal worldview necessarily harm women and girls; the vast majority, of course, do not.

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Paying Attention to Fatherhood: Why I Stepped Down from Pastoral Ministry

By: Touger Thao | March 5, 2017

For too long, I’ve made excuses for not being present and for being less than a full partner in the life of my family. To be a father means to not just hope for a world where my wife and daughters can flourish; it means helping to bring that world into being.

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4 Ways History is Rigged Against Women

By: Rachel Asproth | March 1, 2017

Patriarchy doesn’t try to erase women because we have been absent or idle. Patriarchy tries to erase women because it judges our stories, experiences, and contributions as less vital than those of men. 

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How Learning About Feminine Metaphors for God Undermines Rape Culture

By: Susan Harrison | February 27, 2017

Recently, my husband courageously wrote about his own journey toward the realization that sexual aggression toward women is not about his own moral purity, but about the worth and value of women. He was responding to his colleague’s story of a man’s verbal sexual aggression toward her just two weeks ago–in church. & [...]

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Is The Church Too Feminine?

By: Sarah Lindsay | February 20, 2017

I want to tackle the question of what it means to suggest that the church is “too feminine”: what does this claim mean, and does it have any merit? What does this idea of excess femininity suggest about how the church interacts with cultural ideas about masculinity and femininity?.

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Adventures in Missing the Point: A Response to TGC's Essay on Power

By: Jamin Hübner | February 15, 2017

A reading of the New Testament and Jesus of Nazareth in its own context points us away from all flawed forms of earthly power and authority—those based on maleness, ethnicity, on who has the larger army, who has the most wealth, etc.

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February Isn't Enough: The Historical Erasure of Black Women

By: Rachel Asproth | February 13, 2017

Years of conversations with women of color and some harsh lessons on intersectional feminism (as well as womanism, mujerista theology, native feminism, etc.) revealed that my feminist history was narrow and exclusive and likewise, so was my feminism.

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