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Book Review: Mystics and Misfits
By: Linda Putnam | February 27, 2018
Mystics and Misfits contains encouragement to lean deeper into relationship with God, going beyond intellectual assent and rational belief, into profound transformation by his love.
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Doctrine of the Trinity
By: Denise Cooper-Clarke | January 31, 2018
I found this five-chapter account of a recent theological dispute absolutely riveting, even though I already knew how it would end! It is an extraordinary story, told by a major player in the drama.
Book Review: The Wisdom of the Beguines
By: Woodrow E. Walton | December 12, 2017
The Beguines represented a broad spectrum of women of differing backgrounds who gave their lives and means to help the destitute, the ill, the downtrodden, and the homeless. Laura Swan’s history of the Beguines is the first good complete treatment of the Beguines that this reviewer has ever seen.
A Tale of Two Translators: The Lives and Legacies of Julia E. Smith and Helen Barrett Montgomery
By: Bronwen Speedie | December 5, 2017
Two Bible translations from the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were the solo efforts of women scholars. Let me introduce you to Julia Evelina Smith (1792–1886) and Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861–1934).
Book Review: The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 10, 2017
Mimi Haddad's forword to Paul Chilcote's The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry.
Book Review: Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity
By: Molly Kate Brannock | October 31, 2017
The four-volume Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity (DDL) provides a well-rounded overview of life not only across time periods but also across the several cultures of the biblical world.
The Ancient Roots of Western Sexism
By: Sarah Lindsay | September 13, 2017
We should acknowledge that patriarchy and the oppression of women have played large roles in both culture and the church for centuries. In fact, far from being countercultural, many complementarian claims about men and women are echoed outside the church.
Marriage: Patriarchal, Sacramental, or Covenantal?
By: Cristina S. Richie | July 31, 2017
Many modern Western marriage rituals—from engagement, to the wedding ceremony, to post-union practices such as female surname change—are clearly patriarchal.
The Nicene and Reformed Doctrine of the Trinity
By: Kevin Giles | July 31, 2017
There can be no denying that we have starkly opposing doctrines of the Trinity. Dr. Grudem and Dr. Ware argue on the basis of creaturely analogies for a hierarchically ordered Trinity where the Father rules over the Son, claiming this is historical orthodoxy and what the church has believed since AD 325. I argue just the [...]
Women's Role in New Testament Household Codes: A Dialogue with Confucian Filial Piety
By: Shi-Min Lu | July 23, 2017
The patriarchal hierarchy imbedded in Confucianism breaks the original design of harmony through filial piety and results in male dominance. This oppressive tendency is in dire need of the healing power of the gospel seen in women’s role in New Testament household codes.