Judith Lieu assesses how unusual it was for Jesus to have female disciples.
Judith Lieu assesses how unusual it was for Jesus to have female disciples.
Sarah Coakley comments on the tension between what Jesus made possible and how that played out in church life.
Lynn Cohick explains what we learn from an ancient letter and some brave women.
Susan Hayward resists popular stereotypes while evaluating what women in particular bring to peacebuilding.
Beverly Gaventa says it’s hard to generalise about the experience of women in the ancient world.
Sarah Coakley unpacks a very complicated history.
Beverly Gaventa considers the New Testament evidence of women in leadership roles.
John Stackhouse outlines an important (and largely forgotten) episode of modern history.
Lynn Cohick looks at evidence that the first Christian women were deacons, bishops, apostles, martyrs, and prophets.
Catherine Brekus notes the central place of women’s stories in the biblical narrative.
Judith Lieu outlines what the Apostle Paul’s letters tell us about the roles of women in mission and church life.
Lynn Cohick describes the different pathways open to Christian women historically.
Ahead of the 2020 Richard Johnson Lecture, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker gives us a sneak peek into the content of her lecture.
Part I of Bites on the Bible with Darrell Bock.
Part II of Bites on the Bible with Darrell Bock.
Part III of Bites on the Bible with Darrell Bock.
Part IV of Bites on the Bible with Darrell Bock.
Part V of Bites on the Bible with Darrell Bock.
How the shoot was better and worse than you ever imagined.
The Crusades are one of the most notorious episodes of Christian history.
Few ideas have changed our world more profoundly than this one.
How can we take Christianity seriously, if Christians have so often departed from the tune of Jesus?
Jesus’ most famous parable had a big influence on the early church – and the world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a rare example of someone whose faith prompted him to stand up to Hitler.
Rowan Williams covers the individual, power, environmentalism, history, and science.
In the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture, Tim Dixon offers a vision for how we might reunite increasingly fragmented societies.
In the 2019 Richard Johnson Lecture, Tim Dixon offers a vision for how we might reunite increasingly fragmented societies
Jesus dramatically changed how Western culture thinks about power and service.
The Jewish and early Christian insistence on care for the poor transformed the ancient world.
Jesus preached a radical ethic of non-violence – one the early church took very seriously.
