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Book Review: Daughter Of The Reformation
By: Jason Eden | January 1, 2016
In a lively and engaging manner, this book tells the story of Catharina von Bora, the woman who married Martin Luther. The author utilizes contextual evidence, imagination, and primary and secondary sources to create an emotionally gripping narrative related to a key figure of the Protestant Reformation. Unfortunately, the book does not systematically or thoroughly [...]
Book Review: Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era
By: Leanne M. Dzubinski | January 1, 2016
In a time when men like Billy Sunday and Dwight Moody were gaining national recognition, significant numbers of women were also making major contributions to American evangelical faith—yet without the same levels of fame. This book fills in some of those missing pieces.
Mockingjays and Unicorns: How The Hunger Games Is Changing Our Perception of Female Leadership
By: Kelsey Widman | December 22, 2015
We need stories like The Hunger Games to show us that female leadership is not a far-fetched dream, accomplished only by those of us willing and able to claw our way up to the top. Normalized female leadership is a desirable and necessary element of the kingdom of God.
Book Review: Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God by John F. Kilner
By: Christa L. McKirland | October 31, 2015
In his book, Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God, bioethicist John F. Kilner sketches the theological history of the image of God, critiques prominent viewpoints from this sketch, and offers a robust formulation of what it means to be in God’s image. Since the understanding of this theological doctrine has both [...]
Book Review: Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World
By: Vicki Scheib | October 31, 2015
After years of leading an identity formation group for women, I was asked to create a similar process for men. While developing the curriculum, I was hard-pressed to find material that was not complementarian, or that did not rely heavily on archetypal models to frame a man’s identity. Because I wanted the curriculum to [...]
Book Review: The Cross and Gendercide: A Theological Response to Global Violence Against Women and Girls
By: Shaun Brown | October 31, 2015
The media has in recent years given increasing attention to global violence toward women and girls . . . In light of these occurrences, Gerhardt’s The Cross and Gendercide is a timely work. Gerhardt confronts domestic violence, rape, gender-selective abortions, female genital mutilation, sex trafficking, early marriage, disfigurement, and other acts of violence toward women and girls [...]
Defeating Dragons: Martha As A Role Model for Single Women
By: Lori Buckle | September 16, 2015
We all knew that after you "graduated" from the high school youth group's "college and career" Sunday school class, you were supposed to jump right into adult classes, where everybody was married. The message was painfully clear: once you left school, you had a few years to establish yourself, and then you settled down and [...]
Book Review: Man Enough: How Jesus Redefines Manhood
By: Tim Krueger | September 5, 2015
Nate Pyle’s new book, Man Enough: How Jesus Redefines Manhood calls Christian men to disregard elusive cultural ideals of masculinity in favor of Jesus-like vulnerability, love, and relationship.
Book Review: Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and the Church
By: Rachel Asproth | September 5, 2015
Stan Goff’s Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and the Church offers a fresh, if controversial perspective on the relationship between the church, war, and patriarchy. Goff’s central argument is that war loving and women hating are ultimately two sides of the same coin, driven by the same fears that allow for the rationalization [...]
Book Review: The Book of Womanhood
By: Lydia Leigh | August 21, 2015
I picked up Amy Davis Abdallah’s The Book of Womanhood with some trepidation. Despite being female, I’ve never really identified with the term “womanhood.” I have a distinct lack of what are generally considered feminine attributes... So while I was interested in hearing what the book had to say, I was pretty certain [...]