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Awaiting the Refugee King: A Christmas Reflection

December 25, 2018 by Christiana Rice

This Christmas, I’m pondering the grittier, truer side of the nativity narrative through the lens of a refugee mother who waits with her children for their dream of liberation. I’m also contemplating the character of a God who rescues even the most marginalized among us.

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Advent, Christiana Rice

A Mother’s Day Liturgy

May 9, 2018 by Kate Wallace Nunneley

In recent years I have been struck by how feminine communion is At the Last Supper Jesus says, “This is my body broken for you” & “This is my blood shed for you” and all of it is to bring about new life. How similar to what a mother can say to the baby she just […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: feminine side of God, Kate Wallace Nunneley, Mary in the bible, Mother's Day liturgy

Keeping Mary Company: A Good Friday Reflection

March 30, 2018 by Dan Hix

What was she doing there?
There, of all places
Why don’t you run, Mary, just run?
Join disciples’ mad dash to self-protection
Bolt…far as you can possibly go
No shame
Any reasonable soul
Anyone would understand
Run Mary, leave this harrowing place
No spot, no place in all creation
From which makes more sense to be gone.

Filed Under: Easter, General Tagged With: Dan Hix, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Mary in the bible

Happy EGALentines Day! (Free Printables)

February 6, 2018 by Kate Wallace Nunneley

We love the Egalitarian blogging community and to show our love this Valentines Day, we want to offer you all FREE PRINTABLE valentines! But we know that you, our Junia Project readers, don’t want just any ordinary valentines. So we collaborated with the incredibly talented Honey, I love You Print Shop to bring you something really […]

Filed Under: Valentines Day Tagged With: free printable, gender equality, Kate Wallace Nunneley, Valentine's card

Let the Wise Women Bring Their Gifts to Jesus

December 27, 2017 by Christiana Rice

When I met this blazing high-school junior, I could tell she had a fire in her gut that compelled her to contend for things that matter to God. This was her God-given gift to the world, yet she shattered the mold of a typical, “godly young woman,” and lost interest in organized religion.

Not an uncommon story.

While the institution of the church in the West is arguably in decline, wise women, young and old, are finding their way to Jesus, starting revolutions of love against society’s degradation.

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Christiana Rice

Remembering the Grieving Women in the Christmas Story

December 22, 2017 by Leanne Friesen

I remember that Christmas when what I wanted most in the whole world was to be having a baby. We had been hoping to have children for a while, but after some tests we were waiting for an appointment with fertility specialists.  It was November when we got the news that conceiving on our own might not be possible, and I was devastated.  As Christmas got closer, the last thing I wanted to hear about was pregnancy and babies – and here we were entering a season where a story involving those exact things was all around me.

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: infertility, Leanne Friesen

The Women Who Stood Near the Cross

April 14, 2017 by Gail Wallace

“Some women were watching from a distance, including Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and Salome. When Jesus was in Galilee, these women had followed and supported him, along with many other women who had come to Jerusalem with him.” (Mark 15:40-41) We know from all four gospel writers that a […]

Filed Under: Easter, Women and the Bible, women in the new testament Tagged With: Gail Wallace

What Do Women Long For? A Christmas Reflection

December 24, 2016 by Christiana Rice

Merry Christmas from The Junia Project! Today our gift to you is this thoughtful and poignant reflection about what women truly want for Christmas. May it be more so in 2017! “While in line at a downtown grocery store, a magazine headline caught my eye, “What Women Long For this Christmas.” The subtitle implied the article would be a resource for gift options or tips on how to relieve women of the hustle and bustle of their inevitable Christmas furry. I rolled my eyes at yet another sentimental and incomplete interpretation of the wants of women. Beyond our shopping lists and our frenzied schedule of the holiday season, what women long for this Christmas is as provocative as it is revolutionary.”

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Advent, Christiana Rice, Christmas

Women in God’s Redemption Plan: An Advent Reflection

December 6, 2016 by Kelly Ladd Bishop

Christmas is coming. We are in the season of Advent, a time of waiting. Advent is the story of women. It is the story of infertility, long awaited hopes, unplanned pregnancy, miracles, labor, birth, redemption, and new life. And this story of women is the story of Christianity, of waiting for the Messiah, and waiting for redemption.

The story of advent begins with Elizabeth, a woman who has been unable to conceive throughout her life, and is beyond her child bearing years. Her experience of infertility, and the disappointment of being unable to conceive is uniquely feminine. She lives the story and struggle that only a woman can know. Then God steps into her world.

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Advent, Elizabeth in the Bible, Kelly Ladd Bishop, Mary in the bible

Joy to the Women! An Advent Proclamation

November 29, 2016 by Rachel Hackenberg

Ah, Advent!

Along with Christmas, Advent is the glorious and only time of year when Christians across the theological spectrum can agree on women’s participation in God’s work.

In Advent, we do not exclude women from signaling God’s presence (Isaiah 7:14). Let the day arrive when the whole Church* welcomes women’s ordained service in mediating the Divine!

In Advent, we acknowledge the strong-willed, outsider women who shaped Jesus’ lineage (especially Tamar, Rahab and Ruth in Matthew 1:1-5). Let the day quickly come when the Church heeds women’s voices speaking prophetically from the margins!

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Advent, Elizabeth in the Bible, Mary in the bible, Rachel Hackenberg, Rahab in the bible, Ruth in the bible, Tamar in the bible

Do I Stay or Do I Leave? A Dilemma for Women in the Church

September 6, 2016 by Teri Ruonavaara King

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 a robust discussion of the pros and cons of staying versus leaving. Today a seasoned leader shares a consequence of staying in a complementarian church that did not come up in earlier discussions and is worth considering.

“The work of a pastor is fashioned after the work of a shepherd who watches over, protects, nurtures, encourages, and loves the sheep. When a sheep wanders off and is hurt, the good shepherd runs after that one and guides or carries it to safety. If a lamb is caught in a crevice the good shepherd does whatever is necessary to free the lamb and heal its wounds. The good shepherd sings to the flock at night soothing their souls encouraging peace. When danger encroaches, the good shepherd chases away the enemy even fighting or killing them if necessary. The good shepherd has eyes on each member of the flock at all times for their betterment, safety, and joy. Jesus is our example of the good Shepherd.

After 40+ years of serving in teaching, preaching, and leading capacities I’ve accepted the fact that pastors and leaders who do not believe in women ministering in these ways will simply not shepherd women in their spiritual development. We’re on our own there.”

Filed Under: General, sexism and abuse in the church, Women and the Church, women in church leadership Tagged With: Teri Ruonavaara King

6 Great Studies on Women of the Bible: 2016 Edition

June 28, 2016 by Gail Wallace

We often get requests for curriculum that supports the egalitarian view of women as full and equal partners in marriage and ministry. So last year we published 6 Great Studies on Women of the Bible (2015), a post that has become one of our most visited resources. Bible studies on the list met four criteria: a focus on […]

Filed Under: General, Women and the Bible Tagged With: Gail Wallace

No Words: A Lament for Women

June 10, 2016 by Kate Wallace Nunneley

When I was looking at the worship life of the American church, I noticed that lament, and something like the book of Lamentations, was absent in so much of our worship life…Why is it that in our typical American churches we don’t want to engage in a very important spiritual practice that we find throughout […]

Filed Under: complementarianism, gender justice, General, sexism and abuse in the church, sexism and gender equality in the church, violence against women, Women and Society, Women and the Church Tagged With: Kate Wallace Nunneley

Biblical Maternal Images for God

May 7, 2016 by Shiao Chong

Mother’s Day makes me think about God’s maternal side. Christianity has been guilty of a patriarchal history that has been oppressive of women. Our conception of God as masculine, e.g. God as Father or King, certainly contributes to our slide into patriarchy. Although written in patriarchal contexts, the Bible itself does not refer to God exclusively in masculine metaphors. There are, albeit few, feminine metaphors used to describe God in the Bible. In this post, I want to highlight the maternal or motherly metaphors used: God as mother bird, God as mother bear, and God as human mother.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Mother's Day, Shiao Chong

Women, War, and Evangelicals

February 26, 2016 by Gail Wallace

Recently the U.S. military announced it was in the final stages of opening all combat positions to women and the question of whether or not women should register for involuntary service was raised in a presidential debate.* These developments were met with loud opposition from some on the evangelical right who declared that “any man who would ask his wife […]

Filed Under: General, Women and Society Tagged With: Gail Wallace, women in the military

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