My NT 6221 class requires a sermon on either Luke 5:1-11 or Luke 11:1-13. I selected the latter passage. The requirements were that it be 7-8 pages long in outline form and utilize at least three commentaries or journal articles. I’ve never composed a sermon, let alone preached one, so this is new territory for […] Read more…
Review: The Mind of the Master Class
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese [October 2005; reviewed 11-18-2010] It’s been a long time since I posted either a book review or anything that I wrote for a class, so I’m posting in PDF form the review I just […] Read more…
Mutuality Article on Women in Mormonism
Mutuality is a quarterly magazine published by Christians for Biblical Equality. The theme for this season’s issue was “Building a Bridge to People of Other Faiths,” so I submitted an article on women in Mormonism entitled, “How Wide the Divide, and Can Biblical Equality Bridge It?” My article is approximately 1800 words long and covers […] Read more…
Review: Evangelical Feminism
Evangelical Feminism: A History by Pamela D. H. Cochran [January 2005] The history this book attempts to cover is a fascinating one in terms of the internal struggle within the Protestant world concerning the equality of women in the church and home. It describes the rise of the Evangelical Women’s Caucus (now the Evangelical & […] Read more…
Review — Highly Recommended Book: Jesus Girls
Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical by Hannah Faith Notess (editor) [September 2009; reviewed 12-29-2009] Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical. The title made me think that the authors intended to spend most of their pages complaining about the treatment of women in evangelical Christianity, a “Festivus: […] Read more…
Review: Gentile Girl
Gentile Girl: Living with the Latter-day Saints by Carol Avery Forseth [January 2002; reviewed 02-21-2009] There is no question that any person who attends Brigham Young University as a non-Mormon receives an automatic boost to enigma status, with Latter-day Saints and “Gentiles”1 alike curious to learn what makes such people tick. Why would anyone who […] Read more…
Review: Bad Girls of the Bible
Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them by Liz Curtis Higgs [August 1999; reviewed 08-28-2000] (Note: I was 18 when I wrote this review for Tekton, under just my initials “J.J.” for Jack Jeffries. I cringe just a little bit reading it, knowing I could write a much better review […] Read more…
