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Book Review: T. Scott Womble's Beyond Reasonable Doubt
By: Jennifer Creamer | October 31, 2010
Building on the premise that the verdict against women in ministry has been reached prematurely, T. Scott Womble asks for a retrial. By taking the role of a defense attorney, the author makes it his aim to lay out a comprehensive argument in favor of women serving in positions of ministry in the church. Womble’ [...]
Book Review: Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life
By: Shirley L. Barron | October 31, 2010
Lynn Cohick's extraordinarily detailed book shows us an accurate reconstruction of women's ways of life in the Greco-Roman world of the first century A.D. The book seems to be aimed toward academics and other well-informed readers . . . Cohick wishes to tell the story of average women, their life passages, opportunities, limits, joys, and sorrows. She [...]
Book Review: Women, Ministry, and the Gospel: Exploring New Paradigms
July 31, 2010
This fine collection of essays draws upon papers presented at a Wheaton College Theology Conference in April 2005. While they all merit reading and pondering, four struck me as particularly noteworthy: those by I. Howard Marshall, Fredrick J. Long, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, and Timothy Larsen. At the same time, with one or two exceptions, the [...]
Book Review: The ESV Study Bible
By: Philip B. Payne | July 31, 2010
These twenty-seven departures from the Greek undermine the ESV claim to be "the very words of God to us" (9) and to let the reader see as directly as possible the structure and meaning of the original. Regarding women in Paul's teachings, the ESV and its notes do not fulfill its promise to represent the original [...]
Book Review: Manfred T. Brauch's Abusing Scripture
By: Arbutus Sider | July 31, 2010
If, like me, you are neither a theologian nor a professor, no need to fear opening the covers of Manfred Brauch's Abusing Scripture: The Consequences of Misreading the Bible . . . Professor Brauch is writing primarily to evangelicals who, like himself, hold the Bible as the unique word of God, guiding our faith and daily practice. Brauch [...]
Book Review: Craig Keener's 1-2 Corinthians
By: Virginia Gray | July 31, 2010
Craig Keener's 1-2 Corinthians is a wonderfully engaging and easily read commentary on Paul's letters to the Corinthians. It is tightly packed with documented information from ancient sources on the historical/social/cultural setting of Corinth in Paul's time. This information enables the reader to understand more clearly the intentions behind Paul's letters to the [...]
Book Review: Love & War: Finding Your Way to Something Beautiful in Your Marriage
By: CBE International | June 5, 2010
In Love & War, the Eldredges attribute the "absurdity of marriage" to innate gender discrepancies. Men and women are so fundamentally different, they assert, that it is no wonder that few can make it work.
Book Review: Beyond Abuse in the Christian Home: Jean Lane Dimock
By: Jean Lane Dimock | April 30, 2010
In Beyond Abuse, readers who know of or who endeavor to care for those who experience domestic violence receive essential information as well as deeper insight into family abuse and what our more effective, healing response should be for both victims and perpetrators. The authors exhort the Christian reader to gain knowledge, and they provide [...]
Book Review: The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
By: MaryAnn Nguyen-Kwok | March 5, 2010
Truly, the most striking message from James' book is that Ruth is not just a lonely woman, in the way of modern romance movies, seeking love and matrimony to complete her happiness.
Why Did God Create Woman?
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 3, 2010
According to Genesis, the only cloud hanging over Eden was man without woman. "It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him a helper as a partner" (Gen. 2:18, NRSV). What is the good or strong help that women offer?