Gender Roles

The gender disparity in the pews is widening, but young women need the church, too.

In the 19th-century, Harriet Livermore boldly defended a women’s right to speak in the church and pulpit.

By altering a single word in Genesis 3:16, the Bible translation amplified a long-standing debate on women’s desire and submission.

How a “history of the female body” speaks to similarities and differences between the sexes.

Some should tiptoe onto gender-role battlegrounds. But most should stay on safer scriptural turf.

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

This isn’t a female problem, but a human one.

Why Wayne Grudem’s interpretation of Ephesians 5:21 is untenable.

Sandra Glahn studies the record of an Ephesian goddess to aid our reading of a challenging passage.