Did the Church Misconstrue Apostle Paul's Writing? (4)

Apr 28, 202311 min read

Did the Church Misconstrue Apostle Paul's Writing? (4)

If Apostle Paul's letters were meant to encourage gender equality, did the church get it wrong? Pauline Christianity vs Jesus

Elaine R Kelly

Apr 28, 202318 min read

Biblical interpretation

Was Apostle Paul Misquoted? (3)

Egalitarian interpretations of controversial passages resolve conflicts within Paul's letters and between Paul, Peter, James, and Jesus.

Elaine R Kelly

Apr 27, 202313 min read

Biblical interpretation

Was Apostle Paul a Misogynist? (2)

Was Apostle Paul a misogynist? Did he hate women? Do you avoid reading his writing? Do Paul's letters make you want to avoid Christianity?

Elaine R Kelly

Apr 26, 20235 min read

Biblical interpretation

Is Apostle Paul Misunderstood? (1)

If Apostle Paul aimed to build a united body of male and female believers, have we misunderstood Paul and his letters?

Elaine R Kelly

Feb 24, 20234 min read

Biblical interpretation

How is Christ the Head of the Church?

What does it mean to say Jesus is the chief cornerstone, keystone, or capstone. Are our daughters called living stones in the Bible?

What is God's Gender? Neither male nor female

Elaine R Kelly

Feb 3, 202310 min read

Biblical interpretation

What is God's Gender? Neither male nor female

Let's look at God's gender, being made in God's image, neither male nor female, and a fun chart of God's pronouns in the Bible.

Peter Encouraged Men and Women (1 Peter)

Elaine R Kelly

Jan 29, 202315 min read

Biblical interpretation

Peter Encouraged Men and Women (1 Peter)

Does Peter tell women to submit and men not to submit? No. Look again at the encouragement written in 1 Peter.

Novel Book and Novel Ideas of Jesus and Women

Elaine R Kelly

Jan 24, 20232 min read

Author Insights

Novel Book and Novel Ideas of Jesus and Women

Book Club discusses novel Forgotten Followers from Broken to Bold and novel ideas of Jesus and women

What lowers your Risk of Intimate Partner Violence? Women Abuse Prevention Month

Elaine R Kelly

Nov 8, 20224 min read

Empowering women

What lowers your Risk of Intimate Partner Violence? Women Abuse Prevention Month

What lowers your risk of intimate Parter Violence? It's not being religious; it's being egalitarian.

1 Timothy: Looking at Language: Seeing Biblical Truth (7)

Elaine R Kelly

Nov 5, 20223 min read

Biblical interpretation

1 Timothy: Looking at Language: Seeing Biblical Truth (7)

Scholar reveals how 1 Timothy 2 does not limit women in leadership or pastoral roles, Episode 7 of the Local Churchology Podcast.

Translation Tricks and 4 Tricky Passages: Women in Ministry (Ep 5)

Elaine R Kelly

Oct 29, 20225 min read

Biblical interpretation

Translation Tricks and 4 Tricky Passages: Women in Ministry (Ep 5)

Dr Cynthia Long Westfall on translation and tricky passages: Galatians 3, 1 Corinthians 11 and 14, and 1 Peter 3

Framework for Navigating Gender and Theology #womeninministry (3)

Elaine R Kelly

Oct 27, 20223 min read

Biblical interpretation

Framework for Navigating Gender and Theology #womeninministry (3)

Dr. Beth Felker Jones asks what would enable believers to flourish & introduces complementarian/ egalitarian terms.

God Shows No Favouritism; Women in Ministry Ep.2

Elaine R Kelly

Oct 25, 20225 min read

Biblical interpretation

God Shows No Favouritism; Women in Ministry Ep.2

Scholar Lynn Cohick explains God shows no favouritism in Ephesians, Colossians, and 1 Timothy.

Imposter! Joanna Hiding Who She Really Is

Elaine R Kelly

Apr 24, 20225 min read

Racism

Imposter! Joanna Hiding Who She Really Is

Who is Joanna in the Bible? Why does she feel like an imposter hiding who she really is? What is racial imposter syndrome?

Elaine R Kelly

Apr 7, 20229 min read

Women in the Bible

Sequence of Resurrection Appearances

Chart showing sequence of resurrection appearances by various different passages. When are women included? excluded?

Elaine R Kelly

Apr 2, 20228 min read

Women in the Bible

Were Women at the Last Supper?

A look at art depicting the Last Supper, its purpose and its impact on our view of women and men with Jesus at the Last Supper.

Elaine R Kelly

Dec 9, 20214 min read

Author Insights

Is your Novel Biblical?

How to confirm if a biblical fiction is in fact consistent with the Bible when it is not consistent with patriarchal church teaching.

Where Does the Bible say Women are Equal to Men?

Elaine R Kelly

Oct 27, 20213 min read

Biblical interpretation

Where Does the Bible say Women are Equal to Men?

Check these Bible references endorsing full equal freedoms regardless of gender. Egalitarian Christians encourage mutuality amog believers.

Is the Trinity Egalitarian or Complementarian?

Elaine R Kelly

Oct 2, 20217 min read

Church doctrine

Is the Trinity Egalitarian or Complementarian?

Holy Trinity as three equal persons vs Jesus as being eternally subordinate. How a hierarchal view of the Trinity subordinates women.

Elaine R Kelly

Oct 1, 20215 min read

Women leaders

Waves of Feminism Ebb and Flow

Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. It is not new.

What Gives a Woman Worth? What Makes Her Worthy?

Elaine R Kelly

Sep 17, 20215 min read

Biblical interpretation

What Gives a Woman Worth? What Makes Her Worthy?

The Bible says a woman's worth is based on her spirit, not on having children. God loves us. Infertility is not a curse. .

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