Christian Feminism Today

Articles

A Biblical Feminist Looks at the Andrea Yates Tragedy
by Anne Eggebroten
A Mother and Daughter Story
by “Anonymous 1?
A Personal Response to a Provocative Memoir 
by Sharon Gallagher 
A Reluctant Feminist: The Books That Led Me Here 
by Peggy Michael-Rush
A Spiritual Heart Transplant
An Interview with Joan Chittister, OSB
A Third Wave Feminist Speaks Out
by Christine Yantis 
Adventures in Teaching “Texts of Truth”
by Alena Amato Ruggerio
Advocacy and the Climate Crisis: Reflections from a Canadian Christian Feminist
by Diana Marshall
An Empty Pew
by Kendra Weddle Irons
An Introduction to Nancy L. Wilson
by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.
Ancient Wisdom from a Foreign Woman 
by Reta Halteman Finger
Answering God’s Call to the Soul
An interview with Marjory Zoet Bankson
A Strange Stirring: “The Feminine Mystique” and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
by Stephanie Coontz
A Sword between the Sexes? C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Blessed the Waters That Rise and Fall to Rise Again (Part 1 and 2)
by Nancy A. Hardesty
Calling Her by Name 
by Louise Davis, M.Div.
Carolyn Briggs: Pressing on to Higher Ground
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Capital Punishment of Women and the Mentally Ill 
by Philip M. Coons, M.D.
Celebrating Title IX As God’s Good Gift
by Melanie Springer Mock
Christian Feminism Online
An Interview with EEWC Member Pat Gundry
Church on Trial? A Mother’s Perspective
by Carolyn Paige  
Clarina Nichols: Godly Woman – Revolutionary Voice 
by Diane Eickhoff
Climbing the Mountain of Age 
by Jeanne Hanson
Come to the Table 
by Rev. Elder Nancy Wilson
Contemporaneity 
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Council Members Respond to “On Being Evangelical and Ecumenical”
Crazy about Abortion
by Anne Eggebroten
Crossing Things Off the List: A Reflection on Retirement 
by Linda Brebner
Dreadlocked Mom – More than the wife and mother you were expecting
by Marilee Jolin
Editorial: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Headed 
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Feminism and Evangelicalism 
by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Feminism in Peril: Contending with the F-Word
a review essay by Melanie Springer Mock
Four Keys That Opened My Way to Consciousness 
by Adelaide Woodcook (with Maridel Bowes)
Friends for All Seasons 
by Linda Bieze and Alena Amato Ruggerio
Fundamentalism, Feminism, and a Newspaper Columnist: A profile of writer Susan Campbell 
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
God the Mother
by Cliff Williams
God’s Call (inspired by Isaiah 6:1-8 and Jeremiah 1:7-9)
by Ken Sehested
God’s Daughters Have Always Prophesied
The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Theologies—Part 1 & 2
God’s Gift of Motherhood Comes in Different Ways 
by Melanie Springer Mock
God’s Grrrl—Biblical Feminism and the Secular Third Wave
by Alena Amato Ruggerio
God’s Motherly Care for Us 
by Kathryn Christian
“Grandma, I’ll Go to Hell with You” 
by Louise Davis
Harvard Divinity School’s Conference on ”Religion and the Feminist Movement”
Part 1: A Participant’s Experience by Alena Amato Ruggerio
Part 2: A Speaker’s Perspective by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Herstory and Evangelicalism: A Review Essay by S. Sue Horner
Cochran’s Evangelical Feminism —Yet Once More - by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Three Commentaries on Sue Horner’s Article “Herstory and Evangelicalism: A Review Essay“
Holy Hellion: The Rebellion of a Faith-filled Feminist 
by Erin Lane Beam
I Found EEWC and Everything Changed 
by Wanda Lollar
In Memoriam: David Scholer
by Anne Eggebroten
In Memoriam: Remembering Ruth Schmidt
by Nancy A. Hardesty
In Memory: Margo Goldsmith, June 3, 1919–August 24, 2010 
by Linda Bieze, Anne Eggebroten, and Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Interacting with Grace 
a review essay by Rebecca L. Kiser
Jann Aldredge-Clanton Interview
with Letha Dawson Scanzoni 
Justice, Love and Compassion On Trial
Why I Took Part in a Protest Demonstration
Martha Ann Kirk — Embodying Christ to the World
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Mary Had Twins? Who Knew? 
by Kathleen Fogarty
Mary Sidney, A Poet and Psalmist of Shakespeare’s Time 
by Margaret Hannay
Meditation on a Pedicure 
by Kathy Pigg
My Advice to Newly-Minted Feminists/Womanists/Mujeristas 
by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
My Fifty Year Journey with Women and Ministry in the New Testament and in the Church Today
by David M. Scholer 
My Journey to Feminism 
by Susan Hall
My Pastor 
by Louise Davis, M.Div.
My Path to Christian Feminism
by Gary L. Tandy
My Son, My Protector
by Gladys Childs
Mysticism, Music, Marriage, and Ministry:
A profile of Kathryn and Brian Christian—Part 1 & 2 
On Being Evangelical and Ecumenical
by Anne Eggebroten
On Leaving: A Response 
by Mary Jo Cartledgehayes
One God, Many Metaphors — The Ministry of Carolyn Jane Bohler
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Our Marriage Was Taken from Us 
by Rev. Marie M. Fortune 
Poets on the Psalms 
edited by Lynn Domina
Praise God’s Name with Festive Dance
An Interview with Liturgical Dancer Lindsey Huddleston
Real Life Evangelism: A profile and conversation with author Martha Grace “Gay” Reese 
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Recipes, Crafts, and Funerals? A Professor Shares a Student’s Surprising Story of Pinterst
By Alena Amato Ruggerio (with Marylisa Wood)
Rejecting Patriarchy to Transform the Workplace
by Linda Bieze
Remembering Mary Daly 
by Alena Amato Ruggerio
Remembering: Writing EEWC’s Herstory
by S. Sue Horner 
Reports from the 2013 Justice Conference
by Marg Herder
Salvation For The Least: Reading Luke’s Two-Volume Work 
by Reta Halteman Finger
Slaying the Public Speaking Mastodon: How to Vanquish Your Fears of Public Speakingby Alena Amato Ruggerio
Some Thoughts on Leaving Church
by Becky Kiser 
Some Thoughts on Living and Dying 
by Nancy A. Hardesty
Songs as Yet Unsung: Why the Church Needs New Hymns 
by Mary Louise Bringle 
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: How an Empowering New Cantata Tells the Story 
by Margaret Shelton Meier
          What We Need to Know about Childhood Sexual Abuse - panel discussion
          A Further Discussion with Sharon Billings - by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
          A Further Discussion with Elizabeth S. Bowman – by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
          A Further Discussion with Marie Fortune - by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Taking the Down Escalator (a review essay)
by Linda B. Brebner 
Taking Leaps of Faith 
by Jeanne Hanson 
Tenure Downturn
by Kendra Weddle Irons
The Christian Feminist Spiritual Practice of…Genealogy?
by Alena Amato Ruggerio
The Heartbeat Benediction
by Alena Amato Ruggerio
The Ordination of the St. Lawrence Nine
by Diane Marshall
The Work is Not Done: Thoughts from a Third Wave Feminist
by Kimberly B. George
“There was just something about women. . . “– the Awakening of Joe Dearborn 
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Twelve Ways EEWC Members  Can Increase Awareness of Abuse and Bring About Change
by Elizabeth S. Bowman, M.D., S.T.M. 
Two Paintings of the Supper at Emmaus
by Linda Williams
Using Our Hands to Find Our Souls 
by Melanie C. Reuter, D.Min.
Who Are the Priests for Equality?
by Letha Dawson Scanzoni
Why We Need Immigration Reform: A Christian Feminist Perspective
by Anne Eggebroten

Book Reviews

10 Lies the Church Tells Women: How the Bible Has Been Misused to Keep Women in Spiritual Bondage  
by J. Lee Grady
25 Years in the Garden 
by Jeanette Stokes
A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists: Musings on Why God Is Good and Faith Isn’t Evil 
by David G. Myers
A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation
by Diana L. Eck
A People’s History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story 
by Diana Butler Bass
A Strange Stirring: “The Feminine Mystique” and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
by Stephanie Coontz
A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity
by Margaret Y. MacDonald and Carolyn Osiek, with Janet Tulloch
A Woman of Salt — A Novel 
by Mary Potter Engel
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”
By Rachel Held Evans
After the Locusts: Letters from a Landscape of Faith  
by Denise M. Ackermann, foreword by Desmond Tutu 
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith 
by Barbara Brown Taylor
“Another Blind Spot Exposed”
a review essay by Reta Halteman Finger (discusses Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible by Musa W. Dube, and Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins by Fernando F. Segovia.)
Anticancer: A New Way of Life
by David Servan-Schreiber
A Sword Between the Sexes? C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
A Time to Embrace: Same-Sex Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics (Second Edition)
by William Stacy Johnson.
Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia 
ed. Allyson Jule and Bettina Tate Pedersen.
Bethlehem Road 
by Nancy Crowe
Breaking Up with God
by Sarah Sentilles
Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith & Citizenship 
by Diana Butler Bass
Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians 
by Candace Chellow-Hodge
Changing Church: Stories of Liberating Ministers
by Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Christ For All Peoples: Celebrating a World of Christian Art
edited by Ron O’Grady
Church on Trial? A Mother’s Perspective 
by Carolyn Paige
Confessions of a Christian Humanist 
by John W. de Gruchy
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back 
by Frank Schaeffer
Dance of the Dissident Daughter:
A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
by Sue Monk Kidd
Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl 
by Susan Campbell
Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins
by Fernando F. Segovia
Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
by Jeff Chu
Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
edited by David L. Balch and Carolyn Osiek
Engaging the Bible: Critical Readings from Contemporary Women
ed. Choi Hee An and Katheryn Pfisterer Darr
Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life
by Sally K. Gallagher 
Eve’s Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body 
by Lilian Calles Barger
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
by Rachel Held Evans
Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires and Emotions for Faith
by Clifford Williams
Faith Cure: Divine Healing in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
by Nancy A. Hardesty
Gather into One: Praying and Singing Globally 
by C. Michael Hawn
Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion: Views from the Other Side 
edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether 
Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism 
by Nona Willis
God the What?  What Our Metaphors for God Reveal About Our Beliefs in God 
by Carolyn Jane Bohler
Growing into God
book by Edwina Gateley, music by Kathryn Christian 
Growing Old in Christ 
edited by Stanley Hauerwas, Carole Bailey Stoneking, Keith G. Meador, and David Cloutier
Higher Ground 
by Carolyn S. Briggs
Holy Boldness: Women Preachers’ Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self 
by Susie C. Stanley
If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person (2003)
If God is Love: Rediscovering Grace in an Ungracious World (2004)
by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland
Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve
by Paul R. Smith
In the Land of the Living: Prayers Personal and Public 
by Kenneth L. Sehested
“Is It a Boy or a Girl?” 
a review essay by Elizabeth Bowman, M.D. of Omnigender: A Trans-religious Approach by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Is It Okay To Call God “Mother”?: Considering the Feminine Face of God
by Paul R. Smith
Jesus Through Jewish Eyes: Rabbis and Scholars Engage an Ancient Brother in a New Conversation
edited by Beatrice Bruteau
Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical 
edited by Hannah Faith Notess
Junia: The First Woman Apostle 
by Eldon Jay Epp
Leading Ladies: Transformative Biblical Images for Women’s Leadership
by Jeanne Porter
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith 
by Barbara Brown Taylor
Let’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
by Gail Caldwell
Living into Hope: A Call to Spiritual Action for Such a Time as This
by Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell
Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community 
by Andrew Marin
Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
by Rob Bell
Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations 
by Warren Carter
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home 
by Rhoda Janzen
My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda
New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views
by Mary E. Hunt and Diann L. Neu
New Jewish Feminism: Probing the Past, Forging the Future 
edited by Elyse Goldstein
Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts 
by Reta Halteman Finger
Oh, What a Difference God Makes! The Religious Beliefs and Lives of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis
a review essay by Elizabeth Bowman, M.D. of The Question of God by Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., M.D. 
Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorova, 
Ordained Roman Catholic Priest 
by Miriam Therese Winter
Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species
Home to Harmony 
by Philip Gulley
Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible 
by Musa W. Dube
Refuge From Abuse;
by Nancy Nason-Clark & Catherine Clark Kroeger
Roman House Churches for Today: A Practical Guide for Small Groups 
by Reta Halteman Finger
Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham 
by Patricia Cornwell
Sabbath Sense: A Spiritual Antidote for the Overworked
by Donna Schaper
Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances
by Tom Davis
Semisweetness and Light
by Mary Cartledgehayes
Silent Lives: How High a Price?
by Sara L. Boesser
Soul Sisters: Women in Scripture Speak to Women Today
by Edwina Gateley, with art by Louis Glanzman
Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community 
by Diana Butler Bass
Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality 
by Leora Tanenbaum
Taking the Down Escalator (a review essay)
by Linda B. Brebner
The Call to the Soul: Six Stages of Spiritual Development
by Marjory Zoet Bankson
The Galilean Secret: A Novel 
by Evan Drake Howard
The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything
by Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
The Help 
by Kathryn Stockett
The Inclusive Bible
by The Priests for Equality 
The Resignation of Eve 
by Jim Henderson
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything
by David Dark
The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
by Amy-Jill Levine
The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire 
by Elisabeth Schüssler
The Red Tent, and Good Harbor
by Anita Diamant
The Secret Life of Bees 
by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into Christian Faith
by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
The Story of Ruth:
Twelve Moments in Every Woman’s Life
by Joan Chittister
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah’s Witnesses  
by Joy Castro
The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of Christian Feminism
edited by Reta Halteman Finger and Kari Sandhaas
Three Books on Giving Up Church
A Review Essay by Kendra Weddle Irons 
(The Resignation of Eve by Jim Henderson, Higher Ground by Carolyn S. Briggs, and Breaking Up with God by Sarah Sentilles.)
Transforming Vision: Explorations in Feminist The*logy
by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza 
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith 
by Anne Lamott
Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims
by Stephen V. Sprinkle
Walking with Wisdom’s Daughters: Twelve Celebrations and Stories of Women of Passion and Faith
by Gloria Ulterino
What God Has Joined Together? A Christian Case for Gay Marriage
by David G. Myers & Letha Dawson Scanzoni
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
by Gail Collins
When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling 
by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour of the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes 
by Kelsey Timmerman
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-faith World
by Brian McLaren
Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation 
by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Women Called to Witness: Evangelical Feminism in the Nineteenth Century, 2nd edition
by Nancy A. Hardesty
Woman Spirit Awakening in Nature: Growing into the Fullness of Who You Are 
by Nancy Barrett Chickerneo
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
by Geraldine Brooks