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Book Review: The Tie That Binds: A Marriage Revolution of Love
By: Susan Harris Howell | May 1, 2013
In The Tie That Binds, the author, Debra White Smith, provides some excellent advice, like respecting each partner’s unique gifts, and focusing on scripture rather than the gender stereotypes of our culture. But she also emphasizes that working for equality is a fallacy, stating instead that our goal should be to serve our spouses ( [...]
Book Review: Dismantling the Dualisms for American Pentecostal Women in Ministry: A Feminist-Pneumatological Approach
By: Woodrow E. Walton | April 30, 2013
Lisa Stephenson relates the purpose of her book in her concluding chapter rather than in her introduction. Her purpose is to address the theological tenets "that have sustained and justified the subjugation of women in ministry within Pentecostalism ..." (191). She writes as a Pentecostal (Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee) to Pentecostals and relies heavily upon Pentecostal [...]
Book Review: Becky Wooley's Non-Prophet Murders
By: William David Spencer | January 31, 2013
There's an old story I've heard passed among fiction writers about an author sitting hopefully at a book signing waiting for someone to notice and purchase her book. A customer picks up the novel with finger and thumb with the relish that one would a diaper some toddler had lost on the floor and asks [...]
Book Review: Rachel Held Evans's "A Year of Biblical Womanhood"
By: Jennifer Kane | December 5, 2012
One thing becomes clear in reading A Year of Biblical Womanhood: to be a woman of valor does not require fitting a particular mold. Rather, it requires a heart willing to seek God and cultivate virtues found throughout Scripture . . . Held Evans' book is filled with honesty, humor, and grace, and her book is a great [...]
Book Review: Rachel Held Evans's A Year of Biblical Womanhood
By: Ashleigh Bailey | November 5, 2012
Proverbs 21: 9 says that “It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious wife.” While sitting on one’s rooftop is not technically a prescribed punishment for a woman’s belligerence, Rachel Held Evans decided that a minute of roof time per contentious remark of the [...]
Book Review: The New Evangelical Subordinationism?
By: William David Spencer | October 31, 2012
This new book on the Trinity is not to be missed. It may well prove to be the definitive contemporary reader on the debate over whether the Trinity is stratified according to rank or not—God being equal in substance and equal in rank, authority, and glory or eternally differentiated in these aspects, a difference [...]
Book Review: Dennis R. Hollinger's The Meaning of Sex
By: Megan K. DeFranza | October 31, 2012
Is there any inherent meaning in sexuality, or does sex simply mean whatever we intend it to mean in the moment? Dennis Hollinger, president of Gordan-Conwell Theological Seminary, insists that there is meaning in sexuality—several meanings, in fact, which guide Christian thought and practice.
Book Review: The Eternal Generation of The Son
By: William David Spencer | October 31, 2012
This book addresses a topic within the Godhead that cuts across the lines of gender conviction and unites egalitarians and hierarchists on both sides of the debate. In this case, the topic is not whether a one-way eternal subordination of the Son to the Father exists in the Trinity, but whether the Son is begotten [...]
Book Review: KeumJu Jewel Hyun and Cynthia Davis Lathrop's Some Men Are Our Heroes
By: Matthew D. Kim | October 31, 2012
As we journey through life, many of us will be able to recount key individuals who noticed our God-given gifts and potential. Those same individuals not only showed an interest from the sidelines, but they also took proactive measures to mentor us and abet us in pursuing God's dreams for our lives. In Some Men [...]
Book Review: Tim and Anne Evan's Real Life Marriage
By: Judith A. Diehl | October 31, 2012
Real-Life Marriage: It's Not About Me is coauthored by Tim and Anne Evans, a longtime married couple involved in Christian marriage counseling for many years. The Colorado authors open and close their book with an appealing image: "Marriage is a lot like climbing a mountain" (345). This image not only sets the tone of the book, [...]