On Easter Sunday, festively decorated churches across the United States will be filled with worshippers eager to celebrate the most important day in the Christian year. While some will attend services ...

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It has a history to it, but like all of these things it’s also taken on a history of its own. In eastern Christianity the third Sunday following Easter (Pascha) is dedicated ...

March is Women’s Month but its celebration started on the wrong foot. We are supposed to highlight the need for greater gender sensitivity and to recognize the ...

(RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr. (RNS) — Emerging from the narrow entrance to a cave south of Jerusalem, ...

John L. Hilton III gave a devotional Monday, Aug. 18, about Jesus Christ and His female followers as portrayed in "The Chosen". “One of the reasons I love 'The Chosen' is because it’s helping to flesh ...

If you experienced much gender competition in childhood, you may remember hearing the boys telling the girls: “The Bible is on our side.” We were wrong. Your church leaders may have taught children ...

Emerging from the narrow entrance to a cave south of Jerusalem, scholar Joan Taylor found herself saying a blessing for Salome. Salome is described in the Gospels as following and ministering to Jesus ...

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient ...

It is not enough to silently oppose warmongering, fascism and sexism; we must be actively changing the narrative.

Jesus’ male disciples were puzzled by his attitude and behavior toward women. He likened the Kingdom of God to “a woman who…” challenged an obstinate judge (Luke 18:1-9); baked some leavening bread ...