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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 [...]
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 [...]