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Book Review: John Zen's No Will of My Own
By: Olga Soler | October 31, 2012
This small book (75 pages) elucidates a great present-day adversary to biblical justice and equality: patriarchy. The book is written for the Body of Christ. It is the wish of the author to bring consciousness of the subject to church membership and leadership alike. The view here presented is that patriarchy is not merely uncomfortable for [...]
Book Review: Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in My Darkest Hour
By: Arbutus Sider | July 31, 2012
Gayle Haggard's Why I Stayed is a spellbinding book. My reflections, as I read it, revolved around three separate but related themes—marriage, mutuality, and "healing through meeting." We all see the stories others tell about their lives through the prism of our own.
Book Review: Caroline Simon's Bringing Sex into Focus: The Quest for Sexual Integrity
By: Megan K. DeFranza | July 31, 2012
Is it possible to see clearly in the midst of sexual confusion today? Caroline Simon believes it is, provided we take the trouble to submit ourselves for regular vision tests along the way. A valuable addition to any undergraduate course on human sexuality or sexual ethics, Bringing Sex into Focus offers tools and skills for [...]
Book Review: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen's A Sword Between the Sexes? C.S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
By: Judith A. Diehl | April 30, 2012
It is interesting that we feel as if we know an author because we have read and appreciated many of his or her books. In my case, I have read and enjoyed numerous writings by British author C. S. Lewis, yet I have never fully understood many of his views. Certainly, over years of reading [...]
Book Review: Junia is Not Alone
By: Liz Sykes | March 5, 2012
McKnight's passion for this subject may surprise some readers, but he perceives this silencing of women as a deep injustice which has been perpetuated up to the present time.
Book Review: Mark and Grace Driscoll's Real Marriage
By: Tim Krueger | March 5, 2012
It's ironic that even the Driscolls have learned through experience that the more egalitarian they are, the better their relationship. But, like many Christian writers on marriage, they haven't yet taken the step of fully embracing what Scripture, prayer, and experience confirm as true.
Book Review: Mae Elise Cannon's Social Justice Handbook
By: Chip M. Anderson | January 31, 2012
In the Social Justice Handbook, I identified with the passion Cannon has for social justice and the burden she has for drawing others to engage in compassion and action to address the issues and causes of injustice and poverty. Cannon succeeds in connecting her readers to issues of social justice, providing them with resources to [...]
Book Review: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky
By: John DelHousaye | January 31, 2012
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is intended for a broad readership with the aim of uniting those who might otherwise be divided because of their religious and political convictions. The authors, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism on an [...]
Book Review: Carolyn Custis James's Half the Church
By: Cynthia Davis Lathrop | January 31, 2012
In this, her fourth book, Half the Church, James writes with passion and intensity to encourage women to fulfill God's call on their lives. She says that women make up at least half the church; in fact, she says that women make up 80 percent of the church in China and about 90 percent in Japan (27). James [...]
Book Review: Millard Erickson's Who's Tampering with the Trinity
By: John Jefferson Davis | October 31, 2011
I am very happy to have this opportunity to recommend strongly Millard Erickson's Who's Tampering with the Trinity? An Assessment of the Subordination Debate to the readers of Priscilla Papers and to the wider evangelical community in generaL Erickson's book addresses two areas of vital importance to the church: the doctrine of the Trinity and [...]