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As associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University, Barr said she was a “very happy academic.” But then came 2016. That was the year her husband was fired from his job in ministry after he and Barr challenged the church’s teachings on women in ministry. It also was the year former President Donald Trump someone who has bragged in the past about his mistreatment of women was elected with the overwhelming support of evangelical Christians. “Those two things together made me realize something had to be done, people had to know where complementarian teachings came from and they didn’t come from the Bible,” she said. ....
(RNS) Women’s History Month may have ended, but women’s impact on religion and spirituality goes on year-round. Here are 10 new nonfiction books, both forthcoming and released in the last year, that explore women’s roles and influence in Christian traditions plus, one bonus work of fiction. “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr For 40 years, Beth Allison Barr believed “biblical womanhood” meant “God designed women primarily to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers,” she writes in the introduction of her book, “The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth.” But Barr’s training as a historian (she’s associate professor of history and associate dean of the Graduate School at Baylor University) convinced her otherwise. She shares her experiences as a Southern Baptist and pastor’s wife, combined with the history and impact of complementarian beliefs, in her book, which ....
Books by Women Confront Churchesâ Misuse of Power By Ann Byle | Feb 19, 2021 Women’s issues, particularly those related to #ChurchToo and #MeToo, prompt religion publishers’ continuing interest in titles that address the silencing and abuse women face in the church and religious institutions. With #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing (Broadleaf, Mar.), author Emily Joy Allison turns over the rocks of the institutional church’s sexual dysfunction. Allison, who launched the #ChurchToo movement when she outed the pastor who abused her, reveals how sexualized violence in religious contexts is ubiquitous and uniquely traumatizing. She also lays the groundwork for healing for the church and survivors of sexual shame. “The answers are not simple, or fun,” she writes, “and they will not allow the existing power structures to be maintained. They require radical deconstruction of closely he ....
By Cathy Lynn Grossman | Dec 11, 2020 Most titles slated for publication in 2021 were written before the Covid-19 pandemic, the divisive presidential election, and the traumas that brought more urgency than ever to racial and social justice issues in 2020. Yet their authors address faith, family, and society in ways that are relevant in any year. They can even point toward joy. It’s not a superficial “ephemeral, cliché-ridden kind of joy,” says David Bratt, executive editor for Eerdmans, for which he acquired Angela Gorrell’s The Gravity of Joy: A Story of Being Lost and Found (Mar.). Gorrell was studying Christian ideas of joy for the Yale Center for Faith and Culture when confronted by the sudden deaths of three close family members from suicide, addiction, and a previously undetected medical condition. “She found that authentic, lasting joy has ‘a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside of sorrow and even sometimes most especi ....