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Book Review: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
By: Kate Netzler Burch | April 6, 2023
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood is a thorough, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to prominent Bible passages that are often used to limit women. Philip B. Payne builds upon and summarizes a lifetime of research to show God’s word consistently affirms the equality of women and men.
Book Review: Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
By: Brianna Cortez | March 14, 2023
Whereas most books on women in ministry primarily focus on contested Bible verses, Nijay K. Gupta’s "Tell Her Story" takes a different approach. Gupta studies women throughout the Old and New Testament first, as if to say, these are the stories we need to shape our view of women—the ones that depict what [...]
Book Review: Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership
By: Eric Anthony | February 24, 2023
Kateusz goes to great lengths to show, successfully, that many of the documents and artworks we have today suffered intentional changes to remove or revise references to women as leaders. However, there are times when Kateusz goes beyond the evidence, though this can be difficult to parse for the non-specialist in history and art.
Book Review: Three in One: Analogies for the Trinity
By: Christa L. McKirland | February 15, 2023
An expert voice on the absence of hierarchy in the Trinity.
Book Review: Women and the Gender of God
By: Todd Edmondson | February 15, 2023
God “harbors no preference for males because God the Father is not male and God the Son is male like no other.”
Book Review: Valiant or Virtuous? Gender Bias in Bible Translation
By: Michaela Miller | November 3, 2022
Suzanne McCarthy has offered a unique and valuable resource for egalitarian readers who are interested in the nuances of gender in Bible translation.
Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture
By: Mary Stahl | October 27, 2022
Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture is a compilation of theological essays written by contemporary Australian woman scholars. While I didn’t agree with everything I read, their ideas made me think outside my own box and find value in differing approaches and viewpoints to complex subjects.
The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended
By: Katie Patchell | October 27, 2022
The Great Sex Rescue is an unapologetic defense of women—our dignity and right to mutuality in all spheres of life. In the process, this book serves as a spotlight cast on popular teachings that promote the dehumanization of women.
The Samaritan Woman's Story: Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo
By: Heather Matthews | October 25, 2022
In The Samaritan Woman’s Story, Caryn A. Reeder uncovers how current biblical interpretations are correlated to interpretations in early church history which linked women, sex, and sin.
The New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, NRSVue (National Council of Churches, 2021)
By: Jeff Miller | August 9, 2022
The New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition (NRSVue) improves the gender language and the translation of some passages, as compared to the ground-breaking 1989 NRSV.
