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Book Review: When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from A Womanist Perspective
By: Kaitlin Curtice | September 5, 2017
“The purpose of the stories about biblical mothers falls on literary and socially deaf ears unless they mean something to twenty-first-century mothers,” Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder writes in When Momma Speaks. This is the essence of Crowder’s mission: to forge a story connection between biblical mothers of color and modern African American mothers.
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: No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God
By: Katy Scott | August 7, 2017
No Little Women: Equipping All Women in the Household of God, by Aimee Byrd, provides many practical challenges to female disciples and their leaders. It challenges women to become better equipped for ministry, learn and exercise discernment in their educational tools, and prompts them to take responsibility for becoming “good theologians with informed convictions” (178). However, [...]
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: The New Dad's Playbook
By: Fred Everson | July 26, 2017
The New Dad's Playbook is a book with practical, basic advice and descriptions about pregnancy and childbirth, with strong attention to the relationship of the expectant mother and father as a couple. What came through most clearly from Watson were love, care, and service for his wife and children. That helmet and child on the [...]