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Book Review: Women As Global Leaders: Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice
By: Kate Netzler Burch | June 4, 2015
Women As Global Leaders outlines the gaps in current research and points us in a clear direction for future study and consideration. While not overtly religious, this resource is a challenge to CBE readers to take equality to the next level and to consider what true leadership can look like, regardless of gender, on the [...]
Book Review: Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter
By: Heather Ann Martinez | May 28, 2015
Hardin Freeman helps readers think critically through the cultural and contextual applications of each woman in the Bible, interacting with readers on an individual level through the text. Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter brings each Bible woman’s experience out of the shadows into the light and into our own contemporary [...]
Book Review: Malestrom: Manhood Swept Into the Currents of a Changing World
By: Susan Larson | May 14, 2015
Manhood is under siege and not because there are women in the board room and men in the laundry room. The crisis that threatens men has ancient roots according to James, and the only real solution is to recapture the even more ancient imago dei we find revealed in those first two chapters of Genesis.
Book Review: Surprised by Scripture: Engaging Contemporary Issues, by N.T. Wright
By: Dawn Gentry | April 30, 2015
Our own study of scripture often leads to more questions than answers, and Wright asserts, “some of the most important questions in life need to be approached from several angles at once” (xi). While the chapter on women may not be a “new angle” to some CBE supporters, it will certainly be new to many. [...]
Book Review: Streams Run Uphill: Conversations with Young Clergywomen of Color
By: Kristen Caldwell | April 30, 2015
The recently published book, Streams Run Uphill: Conversations with Young Clergywomen of Color, poignantly opens up a whole new world for those of us who still see through the eyes of the dominant culture. The title’s Clergywomen of Color gives a small taste of the experiences these women have faced and continue to face.
Book Review: The CEB Study Bible
By: Charles M. Metcalf | April 30, 2015
A wide spectrum of thoughtful Bible students could benefit from The CEB Study Bible. This text provides the reader with ample study notes, cross-references, maps, introductory essays to each biblical book, and a concordance. One of the primary goals of this translation was achieving a balance between accurate renditions of the ancient original texts and [...]
Book Review: Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength
By: Sarah Lindsay | April 10, 2015
Too Heavy A Yoke is an important and accessible resource for understanding the ways in which racism and sexism—both historical and contemporary—impacts the lives of black women. I finished the book with a much better understanding of the historical and contemporary social pressures on constructions of black womanhood.
Women's History Month: Immaculée
By: Callan Martin | March 18, 2015
Immaculée emerged from the weight of oppression victorious in her faith and convicted to testify to her ordeal. Today, she is an author and motivational speaker who shares her amazing story with people around the world.
Book Review: Global Evangelicalism: Theology, History and Culture in Regional Perspective
By: Herbert D. Miller | January 31, 2015
The purposes of the book are to provide a general introduction to evangelicalism and offer a global survey of the topic.
Book Review: Junia, a Woman, an Apostle
By: J.W. Wartick | January 1, 2015
Junia, A Woman, An Apostle by David Williams is a thorough examination of Romans 16:7. The book is intended to introduce general readership to the technical arguments for the conclusion that the person spoken of in this verse was a woman apostle.