Mimi Haddad is president of Christians for Biblical Equality.
Posts By This Author
Women Preachers Strengthened by God
06-09-2009
"Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:31, NRSV)
The Biblical Truth about Gender
05-29-2009
I heard a preacher once say, "Don't let facts blind you to the truth." What did he mean? Facts, misunderstood or taken out of context, can take us further away from, rather than closer to, truth.
The Unique Awareness, Insight, and Wisdom of Women
05-18-2009
As friends and I met for dinner to enjoy pictures of mutual friends' wedding, their four-year old joined in the fun.
Women Who Were Wild at Heart
05-11-2009
I enjoy addressing the contributions of women in history at Christian colleges or universities.
Spiritual Gifts Are Not Bound by Prejudice
05-04-2009
Many of you have attended a class at church designed to help you discern your spiritual gifts.
Turning the Focus Beyond Gender Stereotypes
04-24-2009
Do you find yourself reluctant to attend women's retreats because they tend to focus on things like fashion, women's emotions, crafts, and new forms of stomach exercises?
Celebrating Easter Reconciliation: Alive and One in Christ
04-13-2009
As we celebrate Easter and Christ's empty tomb, we recognize that Calvary changes everything!
'Women Should Remain Silent'?
04-02-2009
Many of us were raised in churches that taught that women should be silent in the church because of the teachings of Paul in 1 Corinthians 14:34.
The Danger of Deception
03-08-2009
How many times have we heard that women are more easily deceived than men?
Examining Paul's Perspective on 'Authority'
03-04-2009
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
From Cultural Conformity to Biblical Obedience
02-24-2009
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Women Leaders in the Early Church
02-16-2009
Look at these astonishing verses from Romans 16.
Kingdom Values Over Cultural Prejudice
02-02-2009
Do you find it curious that some Christians seem entirely focused on gender differences? Have you also noticed that this is rarely the posture of scripture?
When One Suffers, All Suffer
01-23-2009
Have you ever noticed how scripture celebrates our interdependence, our mutuality, and our oneness as the church?
Women Missionaries Who Can't Preach at Home
01-12-2009
Do you have family or friends on the mission field who are women? How many of them preach, teach, and exercise their gifts of leadership beside men on the mission field?
Release Your Women
01-07-2009
When we think of megachurches, very often we imagine large evangelical congregations-numbering in the thousands, located in the United States.
An Evangelical Heritage of Gender Equality
12-17-2008
How many times have you heard the oft-repeated claim that Christians who advance the shared authority and leadership of men and women in the church and home ignore the authority of scripture?
What If All Churches Treated Women as Jesus Did?
11-25-2008
Do you wonder why the words and deeds of Christ are not given more attention in the current gender debate?
Paul's Teaching on Women in Context
11-19-2008
Do you often find comfort and insight, even direction for your life, through a careful study of scripture? Do you believe that God's truth is found in the pages of the Bible?
Men, Women, and Biblical Equality
11-12-2008
Christians for Bibilical Equality's statement on "http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/about/biblical_equality.shtml" href="https://sojo.net/%3Ca%20href%3D"http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/about/biblical_equality.shtm">http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/about/biblical_equality.shtm