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“Consider Others as More Important than Yourselves:” Is Philippians 2:3–11 for Everyone or Just for Women?
By: Carly Pruch | August 4, 2026
Philippians 2 calls all believers to Christlike humility, not women alone. Paul's words subverted Rome's honor culture.
Reclaiming Submission: Distinguishing Submission from Subjugation
By: Israel Steinmetz | June 9, 2026
Submission is often associated with coercion and control; the church must understand the difference between biblical submission and unbiblical subjugation.
Submission: Sound Principles or Sound Bites?
By: Lauren Roberts Lukefahr | June 9, 2026
Social media enables ideas to be shared in accessible, bite-sized formats; but when these sound bites take the place of sound principles, ideas that sound romantic or appealing on the surface may lead us away from biblical truth.
Obey Like Sarah?
By: Bobby Gilles | June 9, 2026
Reading 1 Peter through purely modern eyes can lead us to miss out on just how radical Peter's teachings really were.
Video - But Jesus Was A Man! Presented with Charles Read
By: Charles Read | May 18, 2026
Charles Read explores whether Jesus’ maleness supports male-only church leadership, examining church history, the Trinity, and biblical gender equality.
The Complementarian Imagination: Race, Gender, Exclusion, and Dominion
By: Nick O’Brien | May 1, 2026
Nick O’Brien lays out the chilling roots and possible ongoing liaison between genderized exclusion and racial exclusion in Western Christianity.
The White-Washed Elephant’s Grave
By: Audrey Perry | February 4, 2026
The White-Washed Elephant’s Grave describes the deliverance of a Christian wife oppressed by patriarchal beliefs. Unable to accommodate, control, or cover up the elephant in the room, she finally sees it for what it is and learns the truth about who she is in Christ.
Selections from God’s Word to Women
By: CBE International | November 7, 2025
This article presents Katharine Bushnell’s argument that Genesis 3:16 has been misinterpreted to justify women’s subordination and suffering, contending instead that the passage warns Eve of Satan’s deception rather than declaring a divine curse. These lessons were later gathered and published as God’s Word to Women in 1921, a work reprinted by CBE [...]
Genesis 3:16 and the Character of God
By: Jane L. Crane | November 7, 2025
Crane explains that Genesis 3:16 has often been mistranslated, causing misunderstandings about women and God’s character. Using early Hebrew sources and the research of Katharine Bushnell and Walter Kaiser, Crane shows that the verse describes the woman turning toward the man and the serpent’s deception rather than God punishing or subordinating women, revealing a [...]
Two Ways of Translating and Interpreting Genesis 3:16a, One Older and One Newer: Does It Matter?
By: Joy Fleming | November 7, 2025
Fleming compares two major translations of Genesis 3:16 and argues that the King James Version more accurately reflects the Hebrew text than later versions like the RSV, which wrongly portray the verse as a curse of pain in childbirth. She concludes that the passage reveals both sorrow and blessing, showing God’s recognition of human struggle [...]