![Bearing the Word Bearing the Word](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79986.jpg?h=168&w=300)
I was tired—the kind of tired that only a six-month pregnant mama can be, with a 3-year-old at home and a church to shepherd through the season of Advent to boot. I was grateful, of course, for the baby I was carrying, for the promise of new life after a long difficult ...
![Lead Well Alongside Men Lead Well Alongside Men](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79962.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Gender plays a significant role when we talk about how women and men can lead well together in the church and workplace. As a lead pastor of a church and a program director at a seminary, I have come to see that it is both an opportunity as well as a challenge to co-labor with ...
![Make Your Voice Heard at the Table Make Your Voice Heard at the Table](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79916.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Admittedly, I am small in stature, have a high-pitched voice, and appear very feminine. As a result, I often go into meetings with men—especially powerful men—with a persistent fear that I will not be heard. Or, a fear that if I am heard, my ideas will be dismissed ...
![Unresolved Relationship Issues Unresolved Relationship Issues](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79823.jpg?h=168&w=300)
We were in the second week of a five-month discipleship program when one of the participants casually said, “I can’t tell you how much you remind me of my mother.” I knew she was not giving me a compliment because moments before, she had shared in great detail ...
![Poured Out for the Church Poured Out for the Church](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79779.jpg?h=168&w=300)
It’s one of those days that becomes etched in your memoryācompletely against your will. Try as I might to focus on the chubby legs of my two-year-old toddler scurrying around my ankles as we navigated the petting zoo, my mind was racing. My breath felt short and my heart ...
![Mean Girls in the Church Mean Girls in the Church](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79707.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Several years ago I endeavored to write a Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount for several hundred women. The Bible study was a labor of love, passion, and joy. When the books arrived for us to distribute to our three hundred or so women, it felt like Christmas morning. Almost ...
![Take Delight in Your Passions Take Delight in Your Passions](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/79494.jpg?h=168&w=300)
My Bible teachers never read us the tale of Juana Ines de la Cruz, the feisty Mexican girl with one sustaining passion: knowledge. At three, Juana persuaded her older sister to teach her to read and write. By six, Juana had heard that in Mexico City there was a college where ...