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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, [...]
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 [...]