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Book Review: Men are from Israel, Women are from Moab: Insights about the Sexes from the Book of Ruth
By: Shari Voigt | December 5, 2000
Men are from Israel, Women are from Moab: Insights about the Sexes from the Book of Ruth, written by Dr. Norm Wakefield and Jody Brolsma, takes a quick look at our gender stereotypes and discards them. Instead, they focus on how we can build one another up and nurture healthy relationships.
Strange Bedfellows
By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis | October 31, 2000
The more I learned about the debate raging in the scientific, educational, and political arenas over the origin and development of life, the better I understood the debate in the evangelical Christian community over the roles of men and women.
Veiled and Silenced: How Culture Shaped Sexist Theology
By: Alvin J. Schmidt | September 5, 2000
Weaving together evidence from sociology, anthropology, history, and biblical studies, this book shows that patriarchal and hierarchial views of gender arise from agrarian culture, along with images of woman as unequal, inferior, unclean, and evil. This book is a valuable resource for theologically conservative Christians who are trying to rethink the connenction between theology and [...]
Book Review: God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission
By: James R. Beck | April 30, 1998
God's Daughters is an ethnographic analysis of Women's Aglow Fellowship, a 30-year-old women's organization that originally developed out of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. Women's Aglow is the largest interdenominational women's mission organization in the world.
Book Review: Shattering Our Assumptions
By: Frances Hiebert | April 30, 1996
The purpose of the book is to give perspective on the rapidly changing and diverse roles for Christian women. It addresses both cultural stereotypes and traditional Christian assumptions. The authors, however, come to their subject from different vantage points.
From My Point of View: Women, Society and Self-Esteem
By: Linda Van Grinsven | July 31, 1994
Self-esteem is often very simply defined as “feeling good about yourself.” In reality, self-esteem is much more complicated than that. To understand self-esteem we must first start with another term, self-concept.
The Never-Married Woman: Coping in a Couple-Dominant Society
By: Kristin L. Ellens | October 31, 1993
In this article I will explore some of the positives, negatives, problems and solutions experienced by the never-married woman as she lives and ages within the framework of a couple-dominant society.
The Gifts of Male-Female Friendships
By: Marlin E. Thomas | October 31, 1993
I was well into mid-life before I overcame the fear of my sexuality. That fear prohibited me from enjoying quality non-sexual relationships with women. When I finally overcame that fear, several wonderful gifts of life came to me.
In But Not Of: Transcendent Love
By: Elaine A. Yaryan | October 31, 1992
I wonder if we in the church have allowed the “catalog itch” to infiltrate our human relationships, and whether it has not damaged our ability to love transcendency, to be “in but not of”? How useful are all of our labels and categories in light of John 15:12?
Suggestions for Using Non-Discriminatory Language
By: Frances Hiebert | April 30, 1992
Various members of the faculty and student body have made significant contributions to the understanding of the sexism inherent in the traditional use of the English language. In order to build on their efforts and in response to the request of the faculty, the Office for Women's Concerns has prepared this booklet as an aid [...]