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Book Review: NLT Every Woman's Bible
By: Angela Conley | May 20, 2025
Brooten challenges historians of religion to question the prevailing view of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period as a religion that excluded women from leadership roles and even from attendance at synagogue services.
Book Review: Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | May 17, 2025
Brooten challenges historians of religion to question the prevailing view of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period as a religion that excluded women from leadership roles and even from attendance at synagogue services.
Book Review: Gender, Violence, and Justice
By: Kailey Bradley | May 13, 2025
Gender, Violence, and Justice is a collection of essays written by a leading expert in the fields of violence prevention against women and pastoral theology. The essays include a wide range of topics and encourage churches to foster healthy relationships.
Breaking the Silence on Women Leaders in the Early Church—A Review of Excavating Women: The Archaeology of Leaders in Early Christianity.
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | May 6, 2025
Excavating Women sheds new light on the roles of women leaders in early Christianity through groundbreaking archaeological discoveries and analysis.
Book Review: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry
By: Alexander Kwasi Oduro | May 1, 2025
This book is a valuable, balanced, and thoughtful treasure for embracing the gifting and talents of the wives of pastors and of Christian women in general for the furtherance of the church around the world, now and in the future.
Book Review: Finding Hagar: God's Pursuit of a Runaway
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | April 29, 2025
Finding Hagar is a good corrective read for biblical scholars as well as for Christians with negative attitudes toward Hagar, Ishmael, and Arab peoples, and it provides encouragement for any who feel unnoticed in a subservient position
Book Review: Before You Were Born, I Anointed You: Uncovering Scripture's "Hidden" Female Prophets
By: Michelle Eastwood | April 25, 2025
Anna Beresford’s Before You Were Born, I Anointed You argues that the Bible has more female prophets than is commonly recognised, but their prophetic work is obscured by stereotyped, masculinised understandings of prophecy.
Book Review: Recovering from Purity Culture
By: Caylie Cox | April 24, 2025
In Recovering from Purity Culture, Camden Morgante draws from her own experience, therapeutic expertise, and academic research to dismantle the myths of purity culture and give her readers practical tools to overcome damaging thought patterns of shame and erroneous beliefs about sex, purity, and sexuality.
Recognizing Black Women's History Month
April 24, 2025
This week, CBE highlights the breadth of insight Black women have provided as we pursue the mission of women's biblical equality.
Book Review: The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today
By: Kimberly Dickson | April 1, 2025
Jennifer Powell McNutt’s latest book covers the life and legacy of Mary Magdalene through biblical interpretative methods, Scripture, Christian history, and its remembrance of Mary Magdalene.