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Book Review: Building a Church Full of Leaders
By: Heather Ann Martinez | May 30, 2017
Does your church have a mission statement? Is it concise or very vague? Do you know how to build up your church’s leadership? Dr. Jeanne Porter King has developed this handbook, Building a Church Full of Leaders, to help each congregation not only write a clear mission statement but develop a strategy to empower [...]
Book Review: A Woman of Strength and Purpose
By: Taylor Kropelin | May 24, 2017
Strong-Willed Woman. What is your reaction to this phrase? Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, author of the book, A Woman of Strength and Purpose, and a self-proclaimed strong-willed woman, believes that if you have a negative reaction to the term “strong-willed woman,” you’ve probably encountered a woman who has let her strong will go sideways. The [...]
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
By: Woodrow E. Walton | May 15, 2017
Band of Angels is a well-researched narrative history of the women around Jesus and within the rapidly growing Christian community in its first five centuries.
Book Review: The Gender Conversation: Evangelical Perspectives on Gender, Scripture, and the Christian Life
By: Cynthia Mitchell | May 8, 2017
The Gender Conversation is a book that emerged as a result of a symposium hosted by Marling College in 2015. The purpose of the symposium was to "deepen mutual understanding and respect, highlight common ground, clarify points of difference, and unite us all in a quest to learn from the Scriptures and live in the light [...]
Book Review: Marry Him and Be Submissive
By: Cynthia Mitchell | May 8, 2017
In the end, I find that Marry Him and Be Submissive stands as a good account of the author’s life and opinions but in no way reflects biblical instruction on marriage and/or submission. As a fun read about someone’s life = A- As a book about Christian marriage = D
Book Review: I Will Follow Jesus: Bible Storybook
By: Cynthia Mitchell | May 8, 2017
With many versions of the Bible for children, Judah and Chelsea Smith add a creative new twist to Bible stories. Each story in I Will Follow Jesus: Storybook Bible is retold in an accurate and child- friendly way. Stories are accompanied by a short lesson that relates the Bible to a child's life and experiences
Book Review: Eminent Missionary Women
By: Mary Walker | May 8, 2017
The view that only men can use their gifts in service to the Lord is too widespread in our churches today and should be countered by the evidence. I believe that Eminent Missionary Women, though gently written, is an antidote to unscriptural teaching by patriarchal groups. It is tragic that in our day so many [...]
Book Review: Theorizing Women and Leadership New Insights and Contributions from Multiple Perspectives
By: Woodrow E. Walton | May 2, 2017
This latest volume in the International Leadership Association Series considers the leadership of women in multiple positions from multiple theoretical perspectives. The foreword states that the book intends to change “how we think about theorizing women’s leadership.” It proposes that a working theory will create social transformation in developing women leaders and will “restructure [...]
Book Review: Does God Make the Man? Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity
By: Alice Guinther | April 30, 2017
Does God Make the Man? is a fascinating look at how evangelical and ecumenical men process the messages they hear about masculinity from religion and media. The authors organized focus groups and recorded hundreds of hours of conversations to see if religion is vital to developing masculine identity. They conclude that, although evangelical men may [...]
Book Review: Women's Socioeconomic Status and Religious Leadership in Asia Minor in the First Two Centuries C.E.
By: Jeff Miller | April 30, 2017
In short, Bain’s study demonstrates first that studying women in the Hellenistic cultures of the first two centuries AD is more complex than has typically been recognized. Gender is not an isolated indicator of status. Rather, gender, marital status, and socioeconomic status are interwoven. An understanding of women’s religious leadership therefore rests on [...]