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Reflective Faith

“They didn’t teach me that in Sunday school ” All those years in Sunday school and no one ever explained why Eve took the blame

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Rediscovering the Marys

This interdisciplinary volume of text and art offers new insights into various unsolved mysteries associated with Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mary the Mother of

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The Redemption of Love

Competing answers to dilemmas involving love, sex, marriage, and family scream to us from nearly everywhere. The Redemption of Love reveals what the Bible has

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Redeeming Eve

For many women, life feels like one big time crunch: Each day, they rush pell-mell from this responsibility to that, taking care of everyone around

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Reconsidering Gender

This volume deals with the varied forms of shame reflected in biblical, theological, psychological and anthropological sources. Although traditional theology and church practice concentrate on

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The Reciprocating Self

On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S.

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The Real Mary

Would you like to meet the real Mary of Nazareth? The real Mary was an unmarried, pregnant teenage girl in first-century Palestine. She was a

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Reading Women’s Stories

“…delves deeply into three stories of women in the Hebrew Bible (Hannah, Deborah, and Tamar) and explores issues of reading character, plot, and point of

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Reading While Black

Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address the urgent issues of our

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