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Book Review: Gender, Violence, and Justice

By: Kailey Bradley | May 13, 2025

Gender, Violence, and Justice is a collection of essays written by a leading expert in the fields of violence prevention against women and pastoral theology. The essays include a wide range of topics and encourage churches to foster healthy relationships.

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Annie Royale Taylor (1855–1922): A Missionary Adventurer in Tibet

By: Ian Randall | May 1, 2025

Ian Randall tells the story of Annie Royale Taylor (1855-1922), a missionary adventurer who dared the icy perils of Tibet.

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More Than a Woman: Anne Hutchinson’s Testimony for the Holy Spirit

By: Patrick Oden | May 1, 2025

Patrick Oden unpacks the court trial Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) who with extraordinary courage stood her ground on her insight into pneumatology.

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Book Review: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry

By: Alexander Kwasi Oduro | May 1, 2025

This book is a valuable, balanced, and thoughtful treasure for embracing the gifting and talents of the wives of pastors and of Christian women in general for the furtherance of the church around the world, now and in the future.

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Book Review: Finding Hagar: God's Pursuit of a Runaway

By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | April 29, 2025

Finding Hagar is a good corrective read for biblical scholars as well as for Christians with negative attitudes toward Hagar, Ishmael, and Arab peoples, and it provides encouragement for any who feel unnoticed in a subservient position

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Book Review: Recovering from Purity Culture

By: Caylie Cox | April 24, 2025

In Recovering from Purity Culture, Camden Morgante draws from her own experience, therapeutic expertise, and academic research to dismantle the myths of purity culture and give her readers practical tools to overcome damaging thought patterns of shame and erroneous beliefs about sex, purity, and sexuality.

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Women and Words: The Intersection of Culture and Bible Translation with Mayra Ugalde: Part 2

By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International, Mayra Ugalde | April 4, 2025

This episode of the Mutuality Matters podcast, features an in-depth discussion with Mayra Ugalde, the Honorary Director of the Bible Society of Costa Rica. Mayra shares her perspective on growing up in a Latin family with traditional gender roles and delves into the complexities of Bible translation.

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Book Review: The Mary We Forgot: What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

By: Kimberly Dickson | April 1, 2025

Jennifer Powell McNutt’s latest book covers the life and legacy of Mary Magdalene through biblical interpretative methods, Scripture, Christian history, and its remembrance of Mary Magdalene. 

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