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Book Review: Breaking the Marriage Idol
By: Andrea Kulberg | December 11, 2018
In Breaking the Marriage Idol, Kutter Calloway describes how the modern church has become distracted by pagan norms for sexual expression and marriage, and why this contributes to our idealization of marriage and the marginalization of unmarried persons. Arguing that the church has bought in to the Hollywood notion that marriage is the antidote to [...]
Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms
By: Kutter Callaway | December 10, 2018
Kutter Callaway considers why marriage, which is a blessing from God, shouldn't be expected or required of all Christians. Through an examination of Scripture, cultural analysis, and personal accounts, he reflects on how our narratives have limited our understanding of marriage and obscured our view of the life-giving and kingdom-serving roles of single people in [...]
Book Review: Educated: A Memoir
By: Bellyn Whitteker | December 6, 2018
Educated: A Memoir is a story about surviving familial trauma as well as the transformation of a young woman as she becomes liberated from the oppressive beliefs and traditions of her childhood.
Reading Spiritual Books by Women is About Embracing the Full Image of God
By: Karith Amel | December 5, 2018
If we believe that women (and people of color) are created equally in the image of an ineffable God—and if we long to know that God more fully—shouldn't we be actively pursuing their voices and perspectives?
Educated: A Memoir
By: Tara Westover | December 5, 2018
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. [...]
We Can't Ignore Rape in the Bible, Not If We Want to End Sexual Violence
By: Hannah Wilkinson | November 29, 2018
Women live with the real possibility of violence every day. And actually, that shared female experience shapes how I read and interpret the Bible, especially stories that include sexual violence.
Book Review: Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
By: Sarah Lindsay | November 19, 2018
Pure examines the harmful effects of evangelical Christianity's purity culture with particular emphasis on the long-lasting and outward-rippling effects of shame. Of particular interest to CBE's audience, the book details the ways in which purity culture cooperates with patriarchy and harms women.
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
By: Linda Kay Klein | November 18, 2018
An inside look at the effects of evangelical Christianity's purity culture on a generation of young women.
How American Evangelicalism Has Been Weaponized Against Women
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 14, 2018
Like segregationists who supported white-supremacy biblically, supporters of gender roles also make their case from Scripture, reading male privilege into the text.
Book Review: She Preached the Word: Women’s Ordination in Modern America
November 13, 2018
She Preached the Word explores data around who supports women’s ordination in the United States, why, and the effects of women in ministry on those in the pew. The book serves as a tool to understand congregants' views on women's ordination and offers some discussion on how those views are formed, including the influence [...]