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Book Review: She Deserves Better
By: Mikaela Bell | September 14, 2023
After finishing their survey and best-selling book The Great Sex Rescue, testing popular Christian teachings about marriage and sex and empirically demonstrating the harm caused by patriarchal messages, co-authors Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky received many inquiries from parents of young girls. These mothers (and fathers) wanted to know how they [...]
Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview
By: William David Spencer | August 7, 2023
This book about indigenous, First Nations theology emphasizes the leadership of women.
Book Review: Grace is Not Faceless: Reflections on Mary
By: Kristin Lassen | June 23, 2023
Reading this short but weighty book may advance your appreciation of Mary as much as it has for me!
Book Review: On Purpose: Understanding God’s Freedom for Women Through Scripture
By: Kristin Lassen | June 23, 2023
Read On Purpose to find complex teachings in Scripture clarified by the wider contexts of Scripture and the real-life situations addressed. The Holy Spirit may use On Purpose as a tool to meet you in your quest to understand more of God’s truth.
Book Review: Love and War: Find Your Way to Something Beautiful in Your Marriage
By: Ryan Snyder | June 21, 2023
Ultimately, Love & War’s fundamental flaw is its failure to appreciate the diversity of human experience.
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: 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: 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.
