Women have often been maligned and mistreated within the Southern Baptist denomination, writes a scholar who has researched the SBC for 25 years.
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A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
At local level some congregations are bravely creating alternative models where LGBTIQ people can feel safe and be accepted
Christian leaders played a very significant role in fighting apartheid. One of them, Peter Storey, tells in his autobiography what shaped his convictions.
Once again South Africa is facing the challenge of a compromised relationship between the state and the church. Is Nelson Mandela inadvertently responsible?
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Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Professor of the History of Christianity, Boston University
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Senior Researcher, Unit for Religion and Development Research, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
