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Book Review: Jackson Katz's The Macho Paradox
By: Steven R. Tracy | January 30, 2009
Violence against women is an ugly reality in our fallen world. And the more one studies this subject and the more one listens to women, the uglier it gets. This makes The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help a particularly welcome addition to the literature on male violence [...]
Book Review: 95 More for the Door
By: Ryan Snyder | December 5, 2008
Thanks to Austin Stouffer's new book 95 More for the Door—egalitarians can turn the "general theme of Scripture" argument on its head and prove the Bible is actually overflowing with pleas for equality.
Book Review: Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective
By: Mark Mathis | October 31, 2008
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson writes a compelling outline of Christian feminism that serves as a valuable tool for the average evangelical seeking more refined and informed thinking about gender from a biblical perspective.
Book Review: Aída Besançon Spencer, William David Spencer, and Mimi Haddad's Global Voices on Biblical Equality
By: KeumJu Jewel Hyun | October 31, 2008
Global Voices on Biblical Equality opens with a poem To Prisca and Aquila, which ends, "Gemstones of God, buried in stony, multicultural mines." This book is about "gemstones of God," women ministering together with men in the church worldwide. Global Voices embraces a wide range of cultures and traditions, examines the gender discriminations deeply rooted [...]
Book Review: Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective
By: Melanie Springer Mock | September 5, 2008
Kristina LaCelle-Peterson writes a compelling outline of Christian feminism that serves as a valuable tool for the average evangelical seeking more refined and informed thinking about gender from a biblical perspective.
Book Review: Wayne Grudem's Evangelical Feminism
By: Kevin Giles | July 31, 2008
Evangelical Feminism is written to further a cause that has consumed the author's working life: the permanent subordination of women as God's ideal. It judges all fellow evangelicals who disagree on this matter to be "theological liberals," or implicit liberals. The fundamental seismic fault in the author's thinking is that he cannot differentiate between the [...]
Book Review: Saving Women from the Church: How Jesus Mends a Divide
By: Jane Spriggs | June 5, 2008
Saving Women from the Church is a powerful book that will bring restoration and healing to women through the love of Jesus Christ.
Book Review: David Bailey's Speaking the Truth in Love
By: William David Spencer | May 1, 2008
"Roger and Annette Nicole . . . form a partnership to which anyone might point to illustrate the egalitarianism of men and women together that Roger so implacably defends" (ix), writes J. I. Packer in his introduction to Dr. David Bailey's delightful biography of CBE cofounder and evangelical statesperson Roger Nicole.
Book Review: Nicola Hoggard Creegan and Christine D. Pohl's Living on the Boundaries
By: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen | April 30, 2008
Nicola Creegan and Christine Pohl—a theologian and theological ethicist respectively, and both professors at evangelical institutions—belong to roughly the same cohort of academic women: they pursued seminary then doctoral training in the 1980s, encouraged by the success of the third wave of feminism and its (albeit fainter) reverberations in the evangelical subculture. Living [...]
Book Review: Saving Women from the Church
By: Guest Author | March 31, 2008
This book starts with the premise that women are made in the image of God and called to build God's kingdom. Then it deals chapter-by-chapter with the destructive myths that have prevailed in evangelical culture to keep women as second-class citizens and powerless in the pews