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Women Are Gifted: Seven Recent Egalitarian Books for Everyday Readers
By: J.W. Wartick | December 5, 2021
Check out these recently published books that extend the biblical vision of equality throughout the church. From reflections on Exodus to American Christianity, there’s something for everyone!
Book Review: The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership
By: Jeff Miller | October 31, 2021
Dorothy Lee’s work on ministering women displays exemplary research and is especially well written.
Book Review: Preacher Woman: A Critical Look at Sexism without Sexists
By: Heather Matthews | September 30, 2021
Preacher Woman is an academic work, yet it is a must-read for anyone in church leadership who desires to empower women in leadership and is willing to take a critical look at their own church culture.
Book Review: Surprising Steps in the Right Direction: A Review of the 2020 Christian Standard Bible
By: Jeff Miller | July 31, 2021
I would recommend the CSB over the ESV. I would not, however, recommend the CSB over other Bibles that have a commitment to gender-accurate translation—most notably the CEB.
Book Review: Imagining Equity: The Gifts of Christian Feminist Theology
By: Jeff Miller | July 31, 2021
In my opinion, this book is an important contribution, for Methodists and other Wesleyans to be sure, but for other Christians as well.
Editor's Reflection: Spring 2021
By: Jeff Miller | April 30, 2021
Following an article on Ephesians 5 that will be a game-changer for many readers’ thinking about headship, is a collection of book reviews.
The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women: Are They Related in Any Way?
By: Jonathan Tysick | April 30, 2021
Answering his title question in the affirmative, Giles forcefully argues that “headship teaching can encourage and legitimate domestic abuse and it must be abandoned if domestic abuse is to be effectively countered in our churches.”
Christian Egalitarian Leadership: Empowering the Whole Church According to the Scriptures
By: Jeff Miller | April 30, 2021
Christian Egalitarian Leadership takes further steps toward broadening the issues (e.g., it is about more than gender) but also focuses on one essential aspect of the thriving of egalitarianism—leadership.
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
By: Allison Quient, Nicholas Quient | April 30, 2021
Wayne Grudem’s commitment to Scripture is to be commended, but his lack of serious engagement with key challenges undermines a work that has been over twenty years in the re-making. Those looking for an evangelical systematic theology that is up-to-date on recent theological and exegetical advances should look elsewhere.
Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit
By: Kevin Giles | April 30, 2021
How can the complementarian theology of the sexes not collapse if many complementarians themselves have agreed that their doctrine of a hierarchically ordered Trinity, on which they built so much, is heretical?