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Book Review: UNSilenced: Giving a Voice to Women Silenced by Ignorance
By: Cynthia Mitchell | May 3, 2017
Alan Garrett's book UNSilenced thoroughly explores all of the major questions, issues, and arguments presented by evangelicals who have a distorted view of gender and the Bible.
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 [...]
Book Review: Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle's Vison for Men and Women in Christ
By: Nicholas Quient | April 30, 2017
In summation, Westfall’s book does not offer the church merely an egalitarian reading of a few isolated texts. Instead, she paints a broad and coherent mosaic that will force complementarians to grapple not only with her judicious exegesis of the relevant texts, but also with the reality that the totality of Paul’s theology [...]
Book Review: CEB Women's Bible
By: Lindsay Hardin Freeman | March 16, 2017
In the new Common English Women’s Bible . . . Seminary professors, pastors, congregational leaders, and several novelists all contribute, successfully, to the goal of helping Bible women be more accessible in Scripture . . and indeed those Bible women light up the text. In dozens of character sketches, sidebars, and reflections . . . the writers help set each woman in [...]
Book Review: Wealth in Ancient Ephesus and the First Letter to Timothy: Fresh Insights from Ephesiaca by Xenophon of Ephesus
By: Lucy Peppiatt | February 24, 2017
Gary Hoag revisits the topic of wealth in the letter of 1 Timothy, asking whether the teachings found there are consistent or inconsistent with other teachings in the NT, or whether it might be a mixture of the two. Scholars are divided on this question. Hoag’s findings rest on cross-referencing the terms in 1 Timothy with [...]
Book Review: The Quest for Gender Equity in Leadership: Biblical Teachings on Gender Equity and Illustrations of Transformation in Africa
By: Heather Ann Martinez | February 7, 2017
When I first read the title of this book, I thought that it was not really possible . . . I did not expect to read an account of one woman’s journey to the priesthood in Kenya nor of her determination to influence change within the Anglican Church in Kenya. I almost wouldn’t call this a [...]
Why Christians Don't Always Trust Emotional Appeals for Justice
By: Maureen Farrell Garcia | January 30, 2017
Some Christians see logic as the only trustworthy and effective way to communicate and receive knowledge. Unfortunately, there is not enough space in one post to systematically present the origins of this idea. In general, though the topic is a complex one, we can trace this concept from Ancient Greece, which gained momentum during the [...]
Understanding the Link Between Theology and Abuse: A Defense of Ruth Tucker's Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife
By: Maureen Farrell Garcia | January 30, 2017
If you haven’t yet read Ruth Tucker’s book, Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife, you should. Full disclosure: I have been reading her work for a few decades. Her work challenged me to reconsider what it meant to be created in God’s image as a female.