28 February 2025 | Safe Church: How to Guard Against Sexism and Abuse in Christian Communities. By Andrew J. Bauman, Baker Books, 2025, 192 pages. Reviewed by Dorothy Porawski As a woman with her own personal church baggage, few topics get my blood pumping and my temperature rising like the systemic problems of abuse and […]
by Loren Seibold | 22 September 2023 I didn’t start out with any particular objection to women being pastors. Before I got to college, the idea had never crossed my mind. In our little country church in North Dakota I’d not seen any women pastors. We did have some extraordinary women, though, who shaped my […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 26 May 2023 | Some evangelical churches in the United States teach a subject they call “biblical womanhood”: it’s about how (they believe) women should behave in light of the Bible. They see the patriarchal world in which women were subservient to men as God’s original will. The pattern is still […]
by Hannele Ottschofscki | 25 April 2023 | We generally think of the Bible as a book written by men, about men, and for men. It is as if the church has tried to make women invisible in the Bible. And yet they exist—and not only as marginal figures and nameless persons. We need to […]
by Warren C. Trenchard | 18 April 2023 | After reading Ron Hessel’s timely consideration of Eph 5:22 (4 April 2023), I decided to look at this passage in light of Colossians, its likely source. The New Testament contains two versions of a fully formed, comprehensive set of Household Codes in the Letters to the […]
by Ron Hessel | 4 April 2023 | A friend told me, “Ephesians 5:22 in the original Greek doesn’t tell women they have to ‘submit.’ The word isn’t there.” “That can’t be true,” I thought. “It’s right there in the text!” So I pulled my Nestle-Aland edition of the Greek Bible off the shelf (the […]
by Hannele Ottschofski | 28 February 2023 | We had planned to go to the top floor of the round tower at the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv to see the panoramic view of the city. We found the elevator, but on that day there was no access. We could only admire the tall tower […]
by Lindsey Abston Painter | 25 September 2018 | My phone’s news notifications are all a-buzz this week about .Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Will he be confirmed as a Supreme Court Judge? Are the accusations against him by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford (and maybe others) true? And if they are, will it stop him from being […]
By Loren Seibold | 24 August 2018 I didn’t start out with any particular objection to women being pastors. Before I got to college, the idea had never crossed my mind. In our little country church in North Dakota I’d not seen any women pastors. We did have some extraordinary women, though, who shaped my […]
By Lindsey Painter | 23 May, 2018 I’m sitting at my desk at work and a song comes on the easy listening station by One Direction. Here are the lyrics for part of the song. Baby you light up my world like nobody else The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed But […]
By Lindsey Painter | 25 January 2018 | There are stages to social media movements. Remember the Ice Bucket challenge? First it was a new thing, then everyone was doing it, then there was this weird backlash where people complained that the challenge was ineffectual, and it didn’t really raise awareness for ALS and it […]