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Book Review: Equal to Serve: Women and Men in the Church and Home

By: CBE International | April 30, 1988

"We are to concentrate on the inner characteristics of a person, not on his or her gender." So states author Gretchen Gaebelein Hull, a biblical feminist whose new book, Equal To Serve, comes to grips with the controversial social issues of today. 

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Book Review: A Cord of Three Strands: A Way for Both Men and Women to Be Used Fully by God

By: Alvera Mickelsen | April 30, 1988

This book makes a distinct contribution to the current literature on biblical teachings about men and women in marriage and as co-workers in the service of Christ. The three strands in Wright's book refers to man, woman, and God.

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Holiness Perspectives on Headship and Women's Equality

By: Susie C. Stanley | January 30, 1988

This article will examine briefly the views of headship expressed by three leaders in the early Holiness Movement. They claimed that the doctrine of headship or submission was irrelevant in arguments opposing women’s ordination and limited the discussion of headship to relationships within marriage.

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When Will We Be "Real"? When Will We Be Free?

By: Kari Torjesen Malcolm | January 31, 1987

As women, many of us have found out how wonderful it is to be loved by our families. But then we venture out beyond the shelter of our home and loved ones and go to the edge of the woods--into the male world--and we discover that we are not taken seriously.  

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Women and the Church in China

By: Alvera Mickelsen | January 30, 1987

The church in China is different from that anywhere else in the world. But then, China itself is also quite different from other countries. China, more perhaps than in any other place and time since of beginning of USA, is a nation trying to forge its destiny in new ways that are not really copied [...]

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Pandemonium and Silence at Corinth

By: Richard Kroeger, Catherine Clark Kroeger | June 1, 1978

Although we may idealize the early church, most of us would not have enjoyed a visit to a worship service at Corinth. The impression which one was most likely to receive was that of chaos and delirious insanity.

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Prophesying Daughters

By: Fredrik Franson | April 1, 1896

“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even upon the menservants and maidservants in those days, I will pour out my Spirit” (Joel 2:28, 29).

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Women in the Pulpit

By: Frances Willard | January 1, 1889

Written by Frances Willard, a leader of the temperance movement, this book is a collection of testimonies provided by men and women preachers including Dr. Van Dyke a Presbyterian and Dr. Townsend a Methodist theologian. 

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