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Book Review: Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life
By: Carrie A. Miles | January 31, 2004
Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life, by Oregon State University sociology professor Sally K. Gallagher, is a detailed study of evangelical attitudes toward gender and the family.
Book Review: Is There Any Good News About Injustice?
By: Victoria Peterson-Hilleque | December 5, 2003
Gary Haugen's book, Good News about Injustice, can help concerned Christians not only face injustice but also become a part of the solution.
Book Review: Her Story: Autobiographical Portraits of Early Methodist Women
By: Ruby Renz | October 31, 2003
Paul Wesley Chilcote has found a treasure trove of autobiographical literature written by Methodist women who lived from the early 1700s to the middle 1800s. Chilcote gives informative introductions to each woman’s writings, placing her in her historical context.
Book Review: What Bible History Says About Women in Ministry: From Bondage to Blessing
By: Rebecca Leverington | September 5, 2003
If you want one book that clarifies controversial biblical passages about women in leadership, documents God's use of women in both the Old and New Testaments, and explains how and why the church grew away from equality after the time of Christ, this is it. In From Bondage to Blessing, Dee Alei traces the argument [...]
Book Review: Men and Women in the Church: Building Consensus on Christian Leadership
By: Aída Besançon Spencer | June 30, 2003
Sarah Sumner writes an apologetic that is especially helpful to dissatisfied complementarians who do not want to see themselves as "feminists." She wants the Christian community to function as the family of God.
The Power of Story: Acclaimed Author Infuses Literature with Equality
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | June 5, 2003
Acclaimed author Walter Wangerin Jr. discovered the power of story in a childhood Sunday School class. “I remember that a teacher of mine would tell a biblical story, and I literally just packed up my bags and moved into that story,” said Wangerin. “I was Zaccheus in the tree.”
Book Review: Eve's Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body
By: Julia Bloom | June 5, 2003
Eve’s Revenge by Lilian Calles Barger gives us a thoughtful, grounded perspective on what it means to be human as well as woman. We experience all of life from within a body, but often think that we must choose between a narcissistic culture that would reduce all of life to the body and its [...]
Book Review: The Trinity and Subordinationism: The Doctrine of God and the Contemporary Gender Debate
By: Kim A. Pettit | April 30, 2003
Have you heard the claim that relationships between men and women should image the "eternal subordination" in the Trinity? If so, read this book. With a profound, concise course in Trinitarian theology and hermeneutics, using two case studies to exemplify points, The Trinity & Subordinationism is highly recommended.
Book Review: What Science Says About Superiority: Shattering the Myth of Race
By: Kriss Erickson | March 5, 2003
Shattering the Myth of Race by Dave Unander is a thoughtful discussion of the conflict of race and ethnicity against the backdrop of the history of Western Europe and the United States.
Book Review: Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges with Muslim Women
By: Shirley L. Barron | December 5, 2002
Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges with Muslim Women is a wonderfully relevant book for Christians who have little knowledge of Islam or the people who subscribe to it. This book helps readers peer into the hearts of Muslim women, to perceive what they feel and think, and to understand how they live.