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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 [...]
Even in Old Age
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | January 28, 2009
“Even to your old age, I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you” (Is. 46:4, ESV). After paying a visit to an octogenarian couple (or a couple in their eighties), a representative of a major mission organization wrote them saying “Many say that 70-80% of Christian leaders do not finish well, and [...]
A New Focus
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 21, 2009
Do you find it curious that some Christians seem entirely focused on gender differences? Have you also noticed that this is rarely the posture of Scripture? The Bible emphasizes our similarities as God’s covenant people, despite gender, class, or ethnicity. What we share in Christ far overshadows differences of skin color, class, or gender. [...]
Slaves, Women & Homosexuals
By: JL P | January 18, 2009
"Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis" by William J WebbThis book starts out with the question: Which of these instructions from Scripture are still in force for us today exactly as they are articulated “on the page”? Webb then lists several Scripture passages. Here is a short sample of them:
One Body, Many Parts
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 14, 2009
Have you ever noticed how Scripture celebrates our interdependence, our mutuality, and our oneness as the church? To be members of Christ’s body gives new meaning, fellowship, and comfort to us in our weaknesses and suffering. It also means that our achievements and our joys are shared and celebrated by our brothers and sisters [...]
"Wives, In The Same Way"?
By: H. Edgar Hix | January 10, 2009
There it is, plain as day: “For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and [...]
Gladys Aylward: "Virtuous One"
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | January 7, 2009
Have you ever noticed that God seems to delight in confronting the prejudices of the church? Have you also noted how failures and disappointments, even raw prejudice, can be used by God to prepare us for extraordinary leadership? Don’t you love the way God recycles pain, even rejection by others, to make us better [...]
Submission
By: JL P | January 4, 2009
Is the example of Jesus’ earthly submission to the Father a model of a wife’s submission to her husband?
Real Life Marriage: It's Not About Me
By: Anne Evans, Anne Evans | January 1, 2009
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. This book addresses issues of interest to any married person such as sin, prayer, forgiveness, divorce, abortion, and family planning. It is a good tool for a wide range of [...]
God's Women Then and Now
By: Deborah M. Gill, Barbara L. Cavaness | January 1, 2009
God’s Women Then and Now is a thorough exegetical treatment of what has become a “hot button” topic in many Christian circles: women in leadership in the church . . . The authors give solid pointers for how to interpret biblical passages, distinguishing literary context from historical context.