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I’m not so sure that feminists and egalitarians aren’t shooting themselves in the foot when they actively de-emphasize differences between the sexes. In my experience a high percentage of people not only see their spouses as quite different from themselves, but they see more similarities between themselves and their (same-sex) buddies. In fact, […]

Christians for Biblical Equality has just launched its new blog called “The Scroll.” Its blog team numbers ten to twelve members who are geographically dispursed. CBE is excited about this new foray into a new mode of communication, not only to better get out its message of the Biblical basis for gender equality, […]

To this point, the CBE blogging team has been providing summaries and some personal reactions to various seminars and sessions of the 2005 annual conference of the Christians for Biblical Equality. Perhaps it is time to provide some analysis and personal takes on the conference experience.
This was my first CBE conference. It was […]

Some of the individuals who helped found the Christians for Biblical Equality organization participated in a panel that discussed the beginning days. Participating were James Beck, Gilbert Bilezikian, Gretchen Gaebelein Hull, Nancy Graf Peters, Cathie Kroeger, and Alvera Mickelsen.
Question: What led you into the egalitarian way?
A: I watched how […]

I didn’t expect this workshop at the CBE conference to be controversial or get my dander up. Most of the advice from the editors to writers was what you would hear at any writer’s conference: match the mission of the journal; have a new slant; support your assertions; pay attention to the journal’s audience […]

What is interesting in going to the conference is that there are 200 to 300 or so people (my guess) present, but as someone stated there are thousands upon thousands of Biblical egalitarians in the United States. The book Discovering Biblical Equality includes many scholars who are biblical egalitarians from such places as Regent […]

How this CBE workshop stirred up memories of situations I have observed throughout my life time! My father became a pastor because the pastor in the liturgical church of his childhood failed to answer the pleas for help he posed regarding the terrifying tangle of incest ensnaring his brothers and sisters, and instigated by […]

CBE Workshop: There is something about Mary: From Magnificat to Model Disciple.
I chose this workshop when I realized that the leader would be the author of a quotation which had appeared on a recent issue of the monthly publication of our Missouri Synod congregation.
One of the visual aids was an ancient painting of Mary […]