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Book Review: Men are from Israel, Women are from Moab: Insights about the Sexes from the Book of Ruth
By: Shari Voigt | December 5, 2000
Men are from Israel, Women are from Moab: Insights about the Sexes from the Book of Ruth, written by Dr. Norm Wakefield and Jody Brolsma, takes a quick look at our gender stereotypes and discards them. Instead, they focus on how we can build one another up and nurture healthy relationships.
God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission
By: R. Marie Griffith | November 4, 2000
God's Daughters is valuable in showing the complex role that women play within Pentecostalism, a movement that has become one of the most important in twentieth-century world religions.
Shattering the Myth of Race: Genetic Realities and Biblical Truth
By: Dave Unander | November 1, 2000
Exploring the history of how science has been abused to justify racism, this astonishing new book weaves together science and history to offer foundations for biblical and theological perspectives on questions of "race." Unander's goal is to increase the reader's appreciation, both theologically and scientifically, for the unity of all humanity.
The Importance of Gender-Inclusive Language
By: Julia Alford, David Mustol | October 31, 2000
What language is most effective in communicating the true meaning of Scripture? It is the language of the people with whom we want to communicate. We are at a point today where traditional Bible translations, with their male-oriented language, seem to many to be outdated.
The Feminine Imagery of God in the Hebrew Bible
By: Joan P. Schaupp | October 31, 2000
There are profound metaphors of God as feminine in the Hebrew Old Testament. On occasion this poetic imagery is allegorized literally as female; most often the feminine appears in the Hebrew Bible in metaphor and allegory, as in Deuteronomy 32:18b where God, here named Eloah, gives birth to Israel in groaning and travail [...]
Biblical Women Weren’t Always Submissive
By: Joe Lunceford | October 31, 2000
I have presented women from both Old Testament and New who held the highest positions of authority that existed at the time they lived. There are many people, I believe, who will have more to answer for in the context of God’s judgment for the treatment of women in the church than just about [...]
A Whole Bible Approach to Equality
By: Dan Gentry Kent | October 31, 2000
The Bible teaches equality. It reports inequality, and sometimes it permits inequality; but the Bible teaches equality.
Strange Bedfellows
By: Rebecca Merrill Groothuis | October 31, 2000
The more I learned about the debate raging in the scientific, educational, and political arenas over the origin and development of life, the better I understood the debate in the evangelical Christian community over the roles of men and women.
Editor's Reflections | Autumn 2000
By: Carol R. Thiessen | October 31, 2000
Women are enjoying the growing opportunities to succeed in business and the professional world, however the same is not true across the church spectrum. This issue may give you pause to ponder this conundrum.
Book Review: A Hero from Yesterday: Phoebe Palmer's The Promise of the Father
By: Martha Berg | October 31, 2000
Palmer's underlying thesis is that the promise of the Father to pour out his Spirit on all flesh, male and female, and that sons and daughters would prophesy, relates to the role of women in the church today.