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In Likeness and Unity: Debunking the Creation Order Fallacy
By: Allison J. Young | April 30, 2009
The creation accounts in Genesis 1–2 are beautiful accounts of the interdependence of man and woman and the unity and partnership that they share.
"Home" Economics and the Fall
By: Carrie A. Miles | March 5, 2008
In fact, I have come to the conclusion that the kind of patriarchal worldview Jesus and Paul condemn is simply the culture of the fall.
God’s Radical Welcome
By: Amy G. Oden | March 5, 2008
Gospel hospitality offers us a powerful experience of God’s welcome. Abraham and Sarah were both touched and changed. God has welcomed us, too, into new life, into life that is free from expectations based on cultural stereotypes and roles.
A Woman’s Place is Where?
By: Shawna R. B. Atteberry | March 5, 2008
Being made in the image of God, both male and female, has very little to do with modern notions of appropriate men’s and women’s roles.
Genesis 1-3: Creation, Order, and Equality
By: Richard S. Hess | September 1, 2007
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy: Gender and Equality in the Bible and our Culture
Short Answers to Challenging Texts: Genesis 1-3
By: Allison J. Young | July 30, 2007
A brief summary of an egalitarian approach to Genesis 1-3.
The Unity of Creation
By: Allison J. Young | June 5, 2007
If God’s design for male-female relationships was unity and interdependence, and if hierarchy in relationships came as a result of sin, perhaps we need to reevaluate teachings on male “headship” in marriage today.
The Legacy of Pain: An Analysis of Genesis 3:16a
By: Lorraine Cleaves Anderson | April 30, 2006
Only as individuals, cultures, groups, and generations grasp the equality of females and males intended by God at creation can the legacy of pain inherited by all women from the fall continue to be reversed.
Gender Wars: Biology Offers Insights to a Biblical Problem
By: MaryKate Morse | January 31, 2006
Men and women struggle to understand each other and to thrive together as God intended. God’s design of an Edenic relationship where the male and the female together nurture and steward the earth rarely seems to happen.