Earlier this year we shared a guest post titled "Why I'm at a Church That Doesn't Support Gender Equality". The post led to…
Sometimes I find it amusing that our churches of today seem to be more anti-women than the Bible is. We doubt women’s ability…
On a recent tour of Germany I came across the Stolpersteine Project. Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small brass-plated blocks or stones embedded into…
On the third Wednesday of each month I set up camp in a conference room at the hospital where I work. I set…
Most church planting conferences, books, and leaders that I interact with assume that church planters will be male. Moreover, there are some movements…
“Do you care if Jesus is a righty or a lefty?” Jasmine Myers asks during a rehearsal for Godspell. She’s just finished…
It's wedding season! Today Katie Manning shares some creative ways she and her husband, Jon, applied their egalitarian values to the engagement and…
They are the verses of Scripture used most frequently to silence women in the church: 1 Timothy 2:11-12. I remember reading them as…
In today's post Patrick Franklin presents egalitarian theology in a nutshell. He writes, "In order to understand difficult passages of Scripture, including the…
Today would have been my parent’s 61st wedding anniversary. Mom passed away from complications due to Alzheimer’s two years ago and significant…
“The devil is among us here at our seminary: women are being told they can preach.” Those were the first words of a…
In a recent Christians for Biblical Equality blog post, Kevin Giles showed how people used the Bible to justify slavery in a way that…
A few weeks ago, the pastoral leadership team of my church (which I am a part) was planning the upcoming sermon series. When…
We often get requests for curriculum that supports the egalitarian view of women as full and equal partners in marriage and ministry. So…
For years I struggled with my relationship with the apostle Paul. On the one hand, as a teenager, I was completely taken with…