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 […]
I would urge the TNIV people to put the TNIV on BibleWorks and other Bible software programs and also on Biblegateway.com so that churches and Internet users can use it!
– Andy
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen’s lecture on C.S. Lewis was outstanding. Her talk, “A Sword Between the Sexes: C.S. Lewis’ Long Journey to Gender Equality” is available on CD at Equality Depot. Basically, she picked out all of Lewis’s statements on gender equality throughout his writings. Early in his career Lewis’s writings imply his […]
It has been a great encouragement to the biblical egalitarian movement to have Willow Creek Community Church demonstrate having women on the leadership team and as teaching pastors. There are also a number of outstanding evangelical PCUSA churches. The issue with PCUSA churches is not whether they are egalitarian but whether they are […]
It’s good for egalitarians to remind themselves that the patriarchal traditionalist scholars do teach that men are to love their wives and children and take responsibility in the family, even though we suspect that that message is not filtering down to the average guy in the pew. This month’s Mars Hill Audio (Vol 74) […]
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 […]
There is not a Biblical scholar who has a more solid Evangelical reputation than F.F. Bruce. Even the Evangelical hierarchicalists wonder how someone who had so much right could go so wrong when it came to gender equality.
Now that Andy has recommended some resources and mentioned an F.F. Bruce article, I would like to […]