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Personal Stories, Women and the Church

If They Don’t Affirm You? Preach and Pastor Anyway

Randi Shepherd

–Pastor’s wife problems: Getting slapped on the behind after your husband’s sermon while the congregant calls out, “Good message from Kris today”.  Almost…

Personal Stories, Women and the Church

Giftedness vs. Gender Roles: A Personal Story

Christi Rooke

My siblings and I were setting the table when we heard an echo from the kitchen. “Honey, please put down that chain saw…

Women and the Bible

Jesus & the Women of the Gospels

Julia Matallana-Freedman

Sometimes I still believe the myths. You know, the soft rumblings of that devilish voice that says, “you don’t have much to offer…

Personal Stories, Women and the Church

Being Egalitarian in a Complementarian World

Eva Burkholder

As I listened to the pastor of my new church describe the insults and attacks he and the elders had endured after they…

Women and the Church

5 Ways to Support Emerging Women Leaders in the Church

Alicia McClintic

In church leadership, men occupy a position of default; women occupy a position of difference. When we open a Word doc on our…

Personal Stories, Women and Relationships

Submitting to Egalitarianism: One Couple’s Journey

Tammi Kauffman

I should have realized it long ago; I should have recognized the signs. But I didn’t. I suppose I was so lost in…

Women and Relationships, Women and the Church

How to Raise a Girl Today to be a Pastor Tomorrow

Elizabeth Graham

Shaping future pastors doesn’t begin with college, or even a call. It begins at birth. It begins with parents and church families who…

Personal Stories

Taking the Backseat of Christianity

Sharon Klingemann

I was a freshman in college and I believed that I needed to take the backseat of Christianity. I was headed to Columbia,…

Personal Stories

Becoming an Advocate for Women: One Man’s Journey

Alex Evangelista

Learning to be an advocate for women is difficult when you have to unlearn years of a complementarian mentality, male privilege and the…

Personal Stories

Who Really Cares about Male Headship?

Tim Evans

I recently had a conversation with a good friend. As we were talking, I shared some frustrations I had surrounding ways that many…

Personal Stories

How to Be Egalitarian with a Complementarian Spouse

Halley Watson Kim

How to Be Egalitarian with a Complementarian Spouse. Well you cry a lot, sometimes, especially in the beginning. You both get mad and…

Personal Stories, Women and the Church

If You Give a Woman a Bible…

Laura Atwater

"If You Give a Woman a Bible" is a Top 3 Winner for The Junia Project's 2017 blog contest. Laura Atwater cleverly uses…

Personal Stories

Supermodels, Businesswomen, and Apostles

Becky Castle Miller

This post is a Top 3 Winner for The Junia Project's 2017 blog contest. "It was an American supermodel who first showed me…

Women and Relationships

6 Ways to Know You’re Living Out an Egalitarian Marriage

Robin Rhine McDonald

In 2015, a few months before my wedding, I wrote a blog for the Junia Project titled, 6 Things Egalitarian Marriage is Not.…

Personal Stories, Women and the Church

A God Who Calls Women to Pastor

Teanna Sunberg

It is Friday afternoon and my 14-year old folds her tall frame into the passenger seat. “Mom, I am so angry.” Uh-oh. My…

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