• Council Member, CBMW - Katie McCoy (PhD) serves as Assistant Professor of Theology in Women's Studies at Scarborough College of Southwestern Seminary. Her research focused on Old Testament laws about women's personhood and what they teach us about women's dignity and issues of biblical justice.

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  • Recovering the Communion of Persons: How Hebrew Anthropology Counters Aristotelian Thought Concerning Male and Female Roles

    I. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton first published The Woman’s Bible in 1895, she attempted to remedy what she perceived to be a religiously justified inequity: the inferior role of women. The first-wave feminist matriarch lamented...

    Katie McCoy  /  November 20, 2019  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Did Old Testament Law Force a Woman to Marry Her Rapist?

    “If you were not already engaged when the rape occurred, you and your rapist were required to marry each other, without the possibility of divorce.” –Rachel Held Evans, author of A Year of Biblical Womanhood...

    Katie McCoy  /  March 5, 2018  /  CBMW  /  Marriage, Rape, Sex, Womanhood


  • What about Polyamory?

    When I first heard the term “polyamory,” it sounded like one of those eyebrow-raising issues you hear about on daytime talk-shows – shocking, extreme, and on the fringe.[1] Less than a decade later, it’s creeping...

    Katie McCoy  /  September 28, 2017  /  CBMW  /  Marriage, Polyamory