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Book Review: No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction
By: Margaret English de Alminana | July 31, 2011
Marnie Ferree presents a deeply moving and sometimes disturbing investigation of sexual abuse from the perspective of the injured, as one who was deeply wounded through sexual victimization, and the healer, as an actively working counselor and minister to those who have experienced similar abuse. And, as if such revelatory investigations from the first-person perspective [...]
Book Review: Man and Woman, One in Christ
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | July 31, 2011
The research of Philip Payne is exceedingly important for all who are concerned about justice for women. Over the years, gifted women and those who support their cause have treasured the work of Dr. Payne—each of his articles, presentations at learned conferences, and accessible Bible studies. Year in and year out, he has been [...]
Book Review: The New Testament in Antiquity
By: Beth M. Stovell | April 30, 2011
The strengths of this volume are numerous. First, students receive a thorough understanding of the cultural, historical, sociological, religious, and geographical contexts from which the New Testament emerged. Burge, Cohick, and Green carefully craft each element so that they are academically complex while suitably accessible, balancing brevity with depth.
Book Review: Margot Starbuck's Unsqueezed: Springing Free from Skinny Jeans, Nose Jobs, Highlights, and Stilettos
By: Megan Greulich | March 5, 2011
The great benefit to Starbuck's book is in its ability to pose deep questions in a friendly way, thereby encouraging Christian women of many ages, cultures, and points of view to dialogue. In a culture that bombards women with destructive ideas about their worth and identity, and in a church that has not adequately addressed [...]
Book Review: Curtiss Paul DeYoung's Coming Together in the Twenty-First Century
By: Mae Elise Cannon | January 31, 2011
Coming Together is a wonderful and thoughtful engagement about how the gospel may be better understood through the eyes of a diverse community. DeYoung touches on some of the challenges and conflicts that may arise when diversity is pursued and embraced; however, he does not offer specific paths, options, or alternatives in pursuing diversity. Nonetheless, [...]
Book Review: The 2011 NIV Bible
By: Bridget Jack Jeffries | January 31, 2011
Now that the 2011 NIV has been released online and is set for full publication in March, fans of the TNIV may be curious how they compare. What follows is an analysis of the updated NIV's treatment of key passages involving women as well as its use of gender-inclusive language. TNIV fans will be grateful that [...]
Reaching the Average Joe
By: J. Lee Grady | January 19, 2011
J. Lee Grady, an award-winning journalist, minister, and CBE advisory board member, says we won't change the culture until we climb down from the ivory tower to reach the "common man." That's exactly what he aims to do with his new book 10 Lies Men Believe.
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 [...]