The Center for Biblical Leadership will host “Women in Leadership: Gender and Justice” with author and speaker Dr. Mimi Haddad on Tuesday, March 23.
Haddad is founder and president of CBE International. She will speak from the DeSantis Family Chapel via livestream 6:30 p.m. on the topic “Equal but Different: Men, Women and the Gospel.” Register here for the free Executive Leadership Forum.
Earlier in the day, Haddad will speak to PBA seminary students on “The Dignity and Power of Christ’s New Creation” based on Galatians 3:28. On Wednesday, Haddad will speak with a select group of student leaders on how early evangelicals’ embrace of the teachings of scripture empowered them in the suffrage and abolition movements. Haddad’s visit coincides with Women’s History Month.
Haddad is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She holds a doctorate in historical theology from the University of Durham, England.
She is an award-winning author, with more than 100 academic and popular articles and blogs. She is an editor and a contributing author of “Global Voices on Biblical Equality: Women and Men Serving Together in the Church.” Haddad contributed to “Coming Together in the 21st Century: The Bible’s Message in an Age of Diversity,” edited by Curtiss Paul DeYoung.
She is a founding member and leader of the Evangelicals and Gender Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society. She was a convener of the Issue Group 24 for the 2004 Lausanne III Committee for World Evangelization.
Haddad has taught for colleges and seminaries around the world. She serves as a gender consultant for World Vision International, World Relief and Beyond Borders. Haddad and her husband Dale live in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.