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Coming Together in the 21st Century: The Bible's Message in an Age of Diversity
By: Curtiss Paul DeYoung | November 15, 2009
Featuring contributions from men and women of various cultures and contexts and expanding the definition of diversity to encompass more than race and ethnicity.
Coming Together in the 21st Century: The Bible's Message in an Age of Diversity
By: Curtiss Paul DeYoung | November 15, 2009
On the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, this newly revised and expanded edition offers readers an in-depth study of multiculturalism and diversity in the Christian Scriptures. A great resource for college, university, and seminary courses on reconciliation, multicultural ministry, and biblical studies.
Cultural Preferences or Biblical Absolutes
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | November 11, 2009
Have you ever visited your local Christian bookstore as an exercise in gender studies? Notice as you walk down the “women's” aisle how all the books take on shades of pink and lavender. Have a careful look, also, at the material published for boys and girls. Observe the abundance of materials geared to make your [...]
Something Beautiful?
By: Yvette Menking | November 9, 2009
Imagine a sanctuary filled with teachers and students of various ages singing: “It’s the child on his wedding day, It’s the mommy that gives him away, Something beautiful”A child on his wedding day… given away. Pause for a moment and think about that. Young, teenage boys married off to older, wiser, and [...]
Women Prophets of the Old Testament
By: Richard S. Hess | November 4, 2009
Although there may have been many female prophets in Old Testament times, five receive specific mention. Two of these, the prophetess who bears the son named Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (Is. 8:3) and the prophetess Noadiah who is associated with opponents of Nehemiah (Neh. 6:14), receive brief mention and do not perform the tradition roles of prophecy. The remaining woman [...]
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
By: Lynn Cohick | November 1, 2009
Lynn Cohick provides an accurate and fulsome picture of the earliest Christian women by examining a wide variety of first century Jewish and Greco-Roman documents that illuminate their lives. Cohick shows that although women during this period were active at all levels within their religious communities, their influence was not always identified by leadership titles [...]
Book Review: Margaret Köstenberger's Jesus and the Feminists
By: Aída Besançon Spencer | October 31, 2009
Even though Köstenberger claims to supply the reader with the "facts" (16), and to employ a "listening hermeneutic" (119, 220, 229), and not elevate ideology over Scripture (119), claiming to have no "presupposed notions" (183), in reality what she does herself is analyze feminists' writings about Jesus through the theological framework of gender defined by the Council of Biblical Manhood [...]
Book Review: Mignon R. Jacob's Gender, Power, and Persuasion
By: Jordan Easley | October 31, 2009
In Gender, Power, and Persuasion, Mignon Jacobs examines the ancient Genesis narratives with fresh insight and clarity. She weaves together both a faithful identification of key texts and a modern "multicritical" analysis of those texts. Indeed, this book is particularly relevant for egalitarians looking for different methodologies to address the gender issues of the familiar [...]
Fair Lady with the Alabaster Flask
By: Adele Hebert | October 30, 2009
Fair lady with the alabaster flask, How I wish I were there To smell that fragrance in the air All through the house. And what a cost! A year’s wages! I would not forget that wonderful smell. And who could forget what you did? Many saw you. Many knew you. Many smelled your precious [...]
Female and Male in Four Anointing Stories
By: J. Lyle Story | October 30, 2009
In all four stories, Jesus affirms the woman’s act in the face of her male opponents. Jesus’ response to the anointing woman speaks volumes about his liberating love. The four authors send the clear message to their readers that the anointing woman has “a special mission, which is to reintroduce love.”