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Book Review: Bold Girls Speak
By: Ruth Burton | January 1, 2014
This book is a wonderful collection of stories written for a young audience about girls in the Bible who dared to either speak up or work in difficult situations. The author has added beautiful fictional details to the stories so that the reader can imagine what life was like for these girls. She really gives [...]
Top 13 Egalitarian Resources of 2013 (Part 1)
By: Elizabeth Beyer | December 31, 2013
At CBE we take great care to review numerous books each year in order to provide you with the best new resources on biblical equality. As we reflected on the highlights of the past year, we wanted to bring you a list of what we consider to be the top thirteen resources in 2013.
Book Review: Getting Naked Later
By: Sara Robertson | December 5, 2013
She has excellent advice for those "shipwrecked on the Isle of Singleness," and uses positive possibilities to draw us back to the God who loves us. Hurley has found a way "not to spend her life waiting," but to spend herself.
Book Review: Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
By: Naomi Krueger | December 5, 2013
If you want a book to give to your feminist friends and your feminist skeptics, pick up Jesus Feminist. Bessey’s gentle and profound reminder of the biblical message of feminism has the power to break down barriers, unravel misconceptions, and raise the spirits of undercover Jesus feminists.
Book Review: How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership
By: Shirley L. Barron | October 31, 2013
Alan Johnson, emeritus professor of New Testament and Christian ethics at Wheaton College (Illinois), has put together autobiographical accounts of twenty-seven evangelical leaders, both men and women, from many denominations.
Book Review: Forgotten Girls: Stories of Hope and Courage
By: Kate Netzler Burch | September 5, 2013
Forgotten Girls focuses on the need to stop the generational cycles of abuse and oppression where they begin—with little girls. Strom and Rickett use their extensive experience to help launch believers on the road to action with reliable information, achievable goals, and the passion to make a difference in the lives of forgotten girls.
Book Review: The Message of Women
By: Ruth Burton | September 4, 2013
The Message of Women is a very thorough and complete book about women in the Bible. It starts with detailed commentary of women under the old covenant, works through all the women Jesus encountered, and finishes with women in the early church communities.
Book Review: The Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters
By: Christine Mary Cos | July 31, 2013
The Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters is a groundbreaking resource for CBE members, fitting perfectly into the trajectory of CBE's mission to enable women and men to minister in the church together as equals. Throughout history, the church has benefitted from the teachings and writings of many great luminaries, from Augustine to Dietrich Bonheoffer—men [...]
Book Review: Western Daughters in Eastern Lands: British Missionary Women in Asia
By: Leanne M. Dzubinski | June 1, 2013
Seton has written an excellent textbook that contributes substantial knowledge regarding women’s contributions to world missions in the past two centuries. Historically, women have comprised more than two-thirds of the missionary work force for well over a century now, yet their contributions remain almost completely unknown. In a world where their contributions have been [...]
Book Review: The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval World
By: Linda Lawler | June 1, 2013
Dr. Macy’s book is a scholarly one that will appeal to academics and theologians. He includes two appendices with copies, in Latin, of the prayers and ordination rites for deaconesses and abbesses. In his conclusion he expresses his hope that the evidence for the ordination of women in the early Middle Ages will provoke [...]