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Reading Galatians Galatians is simultaneously one of Paul’s most well-known and least understood letters. At times Galatians is reduced down to a...
Unhiding Women in the Parables What if the parables are full of women we’ve never seen? For centuries, traditional readings have focused on men, rendering...
Holy Mischief: In Honor and Celebration of Women in Ministry The ELCA has been ordaining women for fifty years. Mindy Makant interviews eighty-five female pastors across the Southeast about their...
Christ’s Idea of Authority in the Church: Reflections on Reform The Catholic Church--like other churches--has created institutions to support its spiritual mission. The exercise of authority plays a central role...
A History of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity This book, the first history of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, traces the origins of the order in the...
James: New Covenant Commentary Series In the early days of the church, James taught a message of joyful endurance, resisting temptation, and putting into practice...
Sarah and the Garden: And the Time God Heard Her Laughing Why did Sarah laugh? God asks, but no one answers. Is there even an answer to such a question? Sarah's...
Empowered Voices: Scandinavian Women in Early Pentecostalism The invisibility of women in historical research is a problem that requires dedicated attention and concrete efforts to overcome. This...
Preaching Ephesians Ephesians speaks to our deepest questions about God: the redemptive plan of God written from ages past now revealed;...
Who Leads? A concise, updated summary of top Bible scholars on male/female leadership, focusing on facts rather than theories and leaving conclusions...
Artemis, Eve, and the Image of God What has gone so terribly wrong in Ephesus that Paul feels compelled to write the longest marriage code in the...
The Quest for Biblical Servant Leadership: Insights from the Global Church Improve your service. While many claim to offer models of leadership suitable for contemporary society, this book goes a notch...
Women, HIV, and the Church As the world watched the biggest global epidemic in history evolve, many anticipated that Christians would embrace those who were...
What Jesus Learned from Women Dehumanization has led to serious misinterpretation of the Gospels. On the one hand, Christians have often made Jesus so much...
What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In this book, What the Bible...
Valiant or Virtuous? This book explores a systematic bias in translating the Bible and in interpreting its teachings, which suggests that men are...
Unveiling Paul’s Women Whether people realize it or not, the ideas in 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 have had a huge impact on the role...
Under One Steeple Remember the era when people loved living in Christian community? So why not bring that way of life to a...
Sweet Surrender Every culture has a way of perceiving and practicing marriage. Many contemporary Western Christians mistake what their culture prescribes regarding...
Some Men Are Our Heroes Do the little things we do and say really make a difference in the lives of others? Some Men Are...
Sexual Abuse by Clergy Clergy sexual abuse is a horrible reality. These essays reveal that between ten and twenty percent of clergy offend against...
Sex, Wives, and Warriors Why and how should we read Old Testament narrative? This book provides fresh answers to these questions. First, it models...
The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity Since the late 1970s complementarian theologians have been arguing that the divine three persons in the Trinity are ordered hierarchically,...
Responding to Abuse in Christian Homes Domestic abuse is a horror. It lurks beneath the surface of our collective existence, sometimes raising its ugly head where...
Reconsidering Gender This volume deals with the varied forms of shame reflected in biblical, theological, psychological and anthropological sources. Although traditional theology...
Reaching for the New Jerusalem The task of this book is to examine the biblical and theological meaning of the city and our mission within...
Raised from Obscurity Luke-Acts contains many and diverse female characters, many of whom play significant roles in the unfolding drama of God's plan...
The Quest for Gender Equity in Leadership The call for gender equity in leadership has become a global concern. From a Christian perspective, all forms of gender...
The Promise of the Father "Phoebe Palmer's Promise of the Father (1859) is a massive defense of women's right to preach. She attributes the long-standing...
Origins of Difference In what ways are women and men different? Where do these differences originate? In this book, Elaine Storkey uncovers the...
Oh Thou Woman That Bringest Good Tidings About the Author
Dana Hardwick has a Master of Divinity and is an ordained Episcopal priest. She supplies and preaches...
The New Perspective on Mary and Martha The New Perspective on Mary and Martha gives Mary and Martha a total makeover. No longer is this familiar passage...
Mirrored Reflections Have you ever felt alone, facing the challenges life presents? Have you ever felt like you were parachuted onto an...
Ministry at the Margins The author issues a call for the church to update the idea of ministry and mission by moving away from...
Mas Alla de la Maldicion In print for over three decades in English and a decade in French, la reverenda doctora Ada Besanon Spencer's Beyond...
The Marys of the Bible The #MeToo movement is a global phenomenon. Several Christian organizations have been engaging with issues of abuse against women in...
Marriage Made in Eden Why Does Marriage Today Seem To Be Such a Far Cry From Paradise? Let's face it. Our culture's version of...
Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture “In my bibliographies there are no women in the evangelical tradition, and no Australian women scholars.” This unique volume addresses...
The Goddess Revival The Goddess Revival is a Christianity Today Book Award Winner, 1996. All of the authors are clearly sympathetic to the...
Global Voices on Biblical Equality Global Voices on Biblical Equality is a fresh look at the contextualizing of gender equality throughout the world. Biblical equality...
The Gender Conversation Conversations about gender, both inside and outside the church, can frequently degenerate into stale and rancorous disputes in which predictable...
Feminist Theology from the Third World This major new collection of readings demonstrates the range and vitality of feminist theology and its increasing influence on Christian...
Familiar “Leadership” Heresies Uncovered Ever think some passages are impossible to understand? Think Again! Bruce C. E. Fleming has uncovered familiar "leadership" heresies through...
Distorting Scripture? Recent controversies have rocked evangelicalism on the question: Is gender-inclusive language for human beings faithful and helpful in Bible translation,...
Creed without Chaos Introduces contemporary readers to the lay theological writings of British novelist and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers.
Christian Egalitarian Leadership Much has been written on servant leadership, but it is not always tied to egalitarian leadership. Sometimes authority and power...
Cave of Little Faces When a sudden mysterious letter summons city minister Jo Archer from New Jersey to the Caribbean, she is plunged into...
A Case for Female Deacons The subject of "women in ministry" has attracted considerable attention in the past half-century of Western Christianity. While much of...
Building Your Family to Last Have you ever met a family so special that you'd like to become a kid again and sign up? Such...
The Book of Womanhood Christian womanhood. What does it mean? When does it happen--at a certain age, status, or maturity? How do we know...
Bold Girls Speak "Bold Girls Speak inspires girls to go boldly where God calls. This collection of Old and New Testament short stories...
The Black Swan Effect All it took was one. One black swan changed people's minds forever. The Black Swan Effect presents a vision for...
The Biblical World of Gender What were the lives of women and men like in ancient Israel? How does it affect their thinking about gender?...
Biblical Women Submissive? For many years I have had an interest in the equality of women and men, particularly in the church, where...
Battered Into Submission Each year three to four million women are severely assaulted by their husbands, ex-husbands or boyfriends. Battery is the single...
An Historian Looks at 1 Timothy 2:11-14 In the controversy over the role of women in the church, complementarians/hierarchists routinely claim to be upholding the "traditional" position....
Accepted in the Beloved Are you struggling with fully accepting that God loves you? If you or someone you know has suffered abuse, you...
The Father and the Feminine How should Christians speak of the transcendent yet personal God when our language for persons is almost always gendered? Is...
Lydia Hosto Niebuhr This biography is about an immigrant’s daughter who remained in the shadows of her father, husband, sons, and daughter. But...
Women, Abuse, and the Bible Why are spouse and child abuse so frighteningly common in the church? According to the findings of this book’s contributors,...
Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse Strengthening families of different varieties and ending abuse in the myriad of forms through which it surfaces is God's way...
Push Back the Dark Adults in your church, small group, or other Christian organization are silently suffering the tragic consequences of having been sexually...
The Long Journey Home Maybe the only thing new about sexual abuse is quality discussion from several professions (psychology, theology, and pastoral care). Here...
The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women In recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of...
Gender, Violence, and Justice Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women...
Female Identity Formation and Response to Intimate Violence This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate...
Women, Men, and the Trinity There is a gridlock in churches today regarding the role of women. This debate extends beyond the relationship between men...