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Book Review: Grit and Grace: Heroic Women of the Bible
By: Jenny Rae Armstrong | September 5, 2017
Grit and Grace is an empowering, thought-provoking, and eminently readable book.
Book Review: Making Marriage Beautiful: Lifelong Love, Joy, and Intimacy Start with You
By: Amy R. Buckley | September 5, 2017
A few months ago, an acquaintance confided that her marriage is in trouble. She asked about egalitarian marriage resources, and I enthusiastically recommended Dorothy Greco’s new book, Making Marriage Beautiful.
Book Review: Naked: Reclaiming Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
By: Kate Wallace Nunneley | September 5, 2017
Naked is a marriage book thoroughly steeped in egalitarian theology and completely free from gender stereotypes and tired “male headship” language.
Book Review: Push Back the Dark: Companioning Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
By: Anna Snyder | August 31, 2017
In her book Push Back the Dark: Companioning Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Dr. Elizabeth Altmaier combines her professional career as a psychologist and professor with her personal experience as a survivor of child sexual abuse to offer this approachable guide for churches supporting adults who experienced child sexual abuse.
Book Review: And The Spirit Moved Them
By: Francis H. Geis | August 31, 2017
And the Spirit Moved Them was written to demonstrate that the true origin of the modern American women’s rights movement was not the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention of 1848, but the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in New York City in 1837. Author Helen LaKelly Hunt gives a fascinating historical account of these [...]
Book Review: Christian Women in the Patristic World
By: Jason Eden | August 16, 2017
Scholars and informed Christians alike are well aware of Clement of Rome, Saint Augustine, and other “church fathers.” But what about those “church mothers” who likewise contributed to the growth and development of early Christianity? Women, such as Thecla, Perpetua, and Helena Augusta supported monastic communities with financial gifts, engaged in theological discourse and study, [...]
Book Review: Christian Standard Bible
By: Jeff Miller | July 31, 2017
The CSB makes some improvements over its ancestor, the HCSB (and over the English Standard Version as well), in its translation of gender language.
Book Review: Courage Coach
By: Liz Sykes | July 25, 2017
The title says it all! A person experiencing abuse needs to have courage and needs someone to coach and encourage them through the process. A coach helps them be prepared to admit the possibility that they are in an abusive situation and shows them the steps to take toward freedom.
Book Review: Find Your Brave
By: Lori Buckle | June 1, 2017
Find Your Brave is not an explicitly egalitarian book. It does not address issues such as women in church leadership or the relations between the sexes. Instead, Holly Wagner exhorts her readers to remain strong during times of adversity by drawing upon the strength of God. Her message is applicable, therefore, to every Christian, no [...]
Book Review: Everbloom: Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives
By: Diane Fillmore | May 31, 2017
Everbloom: Stories of Living Deeply Rooted and Transformed Lives is a book meant to be sipped and savored. At first glance it looks like it might be a book of writing prompts, but it is really a collection of forty-two short essays and poems written by women from a large variety of life stages and [...]