Holding Up Half the Sky
Holding Up Half the Sky: A Biblical Case for Women Leading and Teaching in the Church Women have played significant roles in ministry and leadership...
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Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
By Beth Allison Barr Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices...
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By Kristin Kobes Du Mez Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have...
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A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit
By SARAH SENTILLES Women have been among the most dynamic and successful ministers in all Protestant denominations; but in divinity school, Sarah Sentilles discovered that...
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Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture: Papers by Australian Women Scholars in the Evangelical Tradition
Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture: Papers by Australian Women Scholars in the Evangelical Tradition (Australian College of Theology Monograph Series) by...
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Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Amie Byrd uses the image of yellow wallpaper, an image in a 19th Century novella by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, where yellow wallpaper was trapping...
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How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership
Alan F. Johnson’s compilation of narratives entitled How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership: Compelling Stories from Prominent Evangelicals is a particularly...
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The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women’s Interpretation
by Amanda Benckhuysen What does it mean to be male and female? Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional capacities? Are...
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What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women
What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women Kevin Giles, Cascade, 2018 Kevin Giles delights in Australia and its ideal of being an egalitarian nation. This ideal...
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The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women: Are They Related In Any Way?
by Kevin Giles Kevin Giles latest, and he says, his final book is a challenging look at the practical outworking of a strongly complementarian view...
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The Blue Parakeet
by Scot McKnight Zondervan, 2018 Scot McKnight’s wife Kris refers to his latest book, The Blue Parakeet, as “one of his readable ones.†The book is, in...
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Half the Sky
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn Knopf (2009) By Irshad Manji (The New York Times), Sept. 17,...
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Finally Feminist
By John Stackhouse Discussions about gender continue in many Christian denominations. With good people and solid arguments on each side of the divide, there seems...
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Women in the World of the Earliest Christians
The passing of Mary Daly last week brought back memories of my graduate class in Feminism and Christianity. In 1984, I was in a...