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Honoring the Anguish and Ecstasy of Motherhood
By: Sarabeth Ng | March 5, 2022
This issue of Mutuality invites you to wrap yourself in the quilt of motherhood. Let us learn how to honor the varying embodied experiences of motherhood in all its forms.
My Body, Broken for You: Motherhood, Jesus, and Julian of Norwich
By: Juliann Bullock | March 5, 2022
What do Communion and breastfeeding have in common? Spiritual insights from one mother who has found great parallels between her journey as a mother and Jesus’s bodily sacrifice.
An Ethic of Sacredness and Justice: Recovering the Imago Dei of Mothers
By: Mayzie Mayfield | March 5, 2022
The church needs to do better in caring for the mental and physical health of mothers. A thorough understanding of Genesis 1 and 3 will help build a framework from which to act.
I Am More Than a Mother: Dismantling the Madness of the Motherhood Myth
By: Brenda-Lee Sasaki | March 5, 2022
One woman shares her church experience during her struggle with infertility. Her experience indicates a larger problem in the church: Christians still teach that motherhood is the ultimate fulfillment of biblical womanhood.
Mothering the Church
By: Kelly Crews Pelton | March 5, 2022
A poem meditating on how all women can influence—mother—the church toward gender equality.
A Mother’s Sermon
By: Lauren Blanco | March 5, 2022
There is a void in our pulpits and theology because we do not hear from pastors who are mothers. One pastor shares two sermon themes that have been burning in her bones since she became a mother.
Liberation in God’s Name: Daydreams of a Black Mother
By: Kristina Brown Button | March 5, 2022
A Black woman’s struggle to develop her identity as a wife, mother, and Christian inside the white evangelical church. Plus, how she has found healing after leaving.
Pregnancy and the Pastorate: An Opportunity to Reflect Christ
By: Sarah Ago | March 5, 2022
A pastor shares the difficulties of being pregnant while pastoring a church. She also shares seven tips for how churches can better serve their pregnant staff and especially pregnant pastors.
God’s Attributes in Mothers
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2022
Studying the mother metaphors of God in Scripture helps us see how mothers can and do reflect God’s attributes.
Global Impact: One Body, One Kingdom: Encouraging Arab Women in the Church and the Academy with Grace Al-Zoughbi
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International, Kimberly Dickson, Grace Al-Zoughbi | March 4, 2022
In this episode of Mutuality Matters Grace Al-Zoughbi celebrates how God inspired her calling as a theologian not only by the support she received from her loving Christian parents, but also through her church community and via her husband’s affirmation.