Events
CBE Melbourne Conference 2019 Audio
BETTER TOGETHER 2019: Engaging with the Scriptures
Saturday October 12, 9am to 2.45pm.
Held at One Community Church , 184 Surrey Rd, Blackburn
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Margaret Mowczko
Audio:
"What I've learned from ten years of blogging on gender equality"
Question time.
"Man and Woman as the image and glory of God (1 Corinthians 11)"
Marg Mowczko is a writer and occasional speaker with an interest in the theology, the social context, and the women of the apostolic church. She strongly believes that if we are in Christ we are part of the New Creation and part of a community where old social paradigms of hierarchies and caste or class systems have no place (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 3:28). Marg has a BTh from the Australian College of Ministries and an MA with a specialisation in early Christian and Jewish studies from Macquarie University. Her essay on Phoebe of Cenchrea (Rom. 16:1-2) was published in December 2018 by Mohr Siebeck in the book, Deacons and Diakonia in Early Christianity: The First Two Centuries. |
CBE National Conference 2017 Archive
BETTER TOGETHER 2017: WOMEN AND MEN: ONE IN CHRIST was held APRIL 28 - 30th APRIL, 2017
Some papers were recorded and some are available in text form. Go to our Speakers and Workshops page to see what is available.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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| Dr Mimi Haddad, President of Christians for Biblical Equality International |
Rev. Patti Ricotta, president and co-founder of Life Together International, a ministry pursuing global oneness in Christ | Rev Dr Kevin Giles, a pastor-theologian who has published widely on women in leadership, ministry in the apostolic age and the Trinity. |
PROGRAM in Brief:
FRIDAY : 28th APRIL
DINNER : 7.00 for 7.30 pm start
DINNER SPEAKER : Mimi Haddad Interview: "Why a Good Lebanese Girl would devote her life to promoting Biblical Gender Equality? My personal and professional journey as a Christian feminist."
SATURDAY : 29th APRIL
9.30 Welcome to conference
10.00 Keynote speaker: Mimi Haddad
11.00 Morning Tea
11.30 Keynote Speaker: Kevin Giles
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Workshops 1, Afternoon Tea. Workshops 2
5.00 Entertainment - "The Marketplace" - a clown, guitarist, artists, stalls and craft for sale
6.00 Informal dinner - Burmese Cafe will be catering for this.
7.00 Buzz Groups - Discussion groups on specific countries looking at attitudes towards girls/women .
SUNDAY : 30th APRIL
10.30 Church Services at St.Thomas' Burwood, St Hilary's Anglican Church, St. Silas Anglican Church, and GWAC Anglican Church
12.30 Lunch at St.Thomas Anglican Church, Burwood
1.30 Keynote Speaker: Patti Ricotta
3.00 Workshops 3
4.30 Finish
Conference 2017 Speakers and Workshops
Below are a number of the papers and keynote speeches, either in text form or as audio files, for you to hear or re-hear what was presented at our CBE National conference in April 2017
Dr Mimi Haddad: "A theology of Abolition: How we read scripture has a Global impact on Girls and Women" - audio Q&A audio
Rev. Patti Ricotta: Female Genital Mutilation- lessons I have learned working in this situation - audio
Dr Kevin Giles: Was Paul a Misogynist? - audio
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CONFERENCE DINNER SPEAKER: Dr Mimi Haddad:
"Why a Good Lebanese Girl would devote her Life to Promoting Biblical Gender Equality? My personal and professional journey as a Christian feminist" - audio
Dr. Mimi Haddad is president of Christians for Biblical Equality International. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. She holds a PhD in historical theology from the University of Durham, England. Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University awarded Mimi an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity in 2013.Mimi is part of the leadership of Evangelicals for Justice. She is a founding member of the Evangelicals and Gender Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society, and she served as the convener of the Issue Group 24 for the 2004 Lausanne III Committee for World Evangelization.
Workshops and speakers.
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Biblical Oneness and the End of Female Genital Mutilation
CBE Melbourne, Australia
April 30, 2017
Rev. Patti Ricotta
[Corresponding PPT slide Nos are shown in square brackets]
[1] I want to thank you so much for the honor of being with you. I am especially grateful because my story is your story too. Did you know that?
Back in 2010, the Melbourne CBE chapter raised funds that sponsored 14 African clergy to participate in the first FGM conference my organization Life Together International held.
So, it is the privilege of my lifetime to be able to thank you in person for the ministry you were essential in creating. I can’t wait to tell you about what God did though our partnership.
You, my team and the Sabiny people of Eastern Uganda are a picture of how oneness in Christ makes us better together!
Our story began on a warm January morning in Kampala Uganda, way back in 2007. I had been teaching Biblical Equality to Christian church leaders in East Africa for 6 years. But on that day, God put a curve in the course of my life with one 10 minute conversation.
I had just finished teaching the first session of Biblical Equality at a conference for African clergy. The thrust of my teaching was that God’s original design for life between men and women is not hierarchy, but oneness and interdependence.
[2] As I stepped down from the platform an Anglican priest named Rev. Robert Erone pushed through the crowd that was heading out for the break. His Bible was open, and he kept tapping his finger on a passage. He said, “Patti, you come sit with me.” He had a big smile on his face and he was excited about something!
I had known Rev. Robert for several years, but hadn’t seen him in a while. He told me he had moved back to his home area, and was eager to tell me about his ministry among the Sabiny people, a tribe I had never heard of.
