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August 2014

August 08, 2014

A Blue Parakeet in High Heels

By Leslie Keeney: The other benefit of wearing heels is less easily described, but more...

August 06, 2014

Grudem on Grudem’s Studies

Wayne Grudem has recently been interviewed by Books at a Glance, and here is a...

August 05, 2014

Beliefs Known by Praxis

What we believe and how we behave are not quite perfectly matched, at least not...

August 04, 2014

A Brief on the CBE Meeting in Colombia

Mimi Haddad: So many of us long for authentic community - a place to nurture...

July 2014

July 19, 2014

Women Bishops in the Church of England

This week the Church of England decided that women could not only be priests but...

July 10, 2014

Women and the “Silence” of Listening

From CBE's Arise newsletter, by Aida Besancon Spencer: This is an excerpt from Aída Besançon...

July 07, 2014

Patriarchal Worldview: Mimi Haddad

In the newest edition of Mutuality, a church-shaped magazine for the uplifting of women by egalitarians,...

June 2014

June 12, 2014

Ordination of Women: NT Wright

In his new book, Surprised by Scripture, N.T. Wright sketches his case for the ordination of...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

She Can Teach!

A man named Pete tells the story of his uber-gifted mother who could teach, her...

April 06, 2014

An Infographic on Women Empowerment

April 01, 2014

The Apostle Paul and Women

What's remarkable is that in Paul's churches the women were present and participating. Not speaking...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

The Bible and That “Women” Question (RJS)

It strikes me as interesting that so many embrace the interpretation that men are the...

March 07, 2014

Tell Your Story, Jackie

I loved this post by my friend Jackie Roese. I will be posting about Jackie...

March 03, 2014

Women Daring Mighty Things (by Tara Beth Leach)

This post is by graduate assistant at Northern Seminary, Tara Beth Leach, a woman gifted...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Women Ministers Loving the Enemy Challenge

What's it like for a woman in ministry when it comes to the words of...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

That “Women” Question (RJS)

I've put up a two posts on N.T. (Tom) Wright’s response to listener questions posed...

January 25, 2014

Becoming Egalitarian in Greek Class

Source You’re in for a treat today as Meredith and her husband Curtis share the...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

“If our church did not allow her to preach…”

One of the strategies to recognize, encourage and mobilize the gifts God gives to women...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Women in the Early Church

What did women do in the church in the "early church"? (By "early church" I...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

Comparing Men and Women

One of the more commonly observed statistics about American church attendance is that church is...

August 26, 2013

Was Paul the Eternal Enemy of Women?

George Bernard Shaw, who had far more time for Jesus than the apostle Paul, said...

August 14, 2013

Miriam is Not Alone

Feminism is not all the same, but one feature of all theological feminism is a...

August 09, 2013

Carmen’s Story

From Carmen Jordan, one our fine Northern Seminary students who is also pastoring. It was...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Women in Jesus’ World 5

So, we are now ready to ask, What did Jesus think of women and How...

June 20, 2013

Women in Jesus’ World 4

What could women in the Jewish world do in public? This is often overstated in...

June 19, 2013

Women in Jesus’ World 3

Jewish Women and Marriage First, we look at adultery: a Jewish man could only commit adultery...

June 18, 2013

Women in Jesus’ World 2

The Issue of Purity Because of the value placed upon virginity and upon purity in...

June 17, 2013

Women in Jesus’ World 1

To go along with my course at Northern on Women and Ministry, which begins this...

June 02, 2013

Tabitha, Do You Know Her?

Here is Luke's text in Acts 9:36-42: Acts 9:36 In Joppa there was a...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

What’s a Man, What’s a Woman?

Christians are deeply vested in this double question. Complementarians are essentialists who think there are...