• Anne Kennedy, MDiv, is the author of Nailed It: 365 Readings for Angry or Worn-Out People (SquareHalo Books, revised 2020). She blogs about current events and theological trends at Preventing Grace on Patheos.com.

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

    Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Eikon. Beth Allison Barr. Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2025. “Oh,...

    Anne Kennedy  /  June 23, 2025  /  CBMW  /  Womanhood, Women, Women in Ministry, Work & Vocation


  • Reinterpreting Church History: A Response to Mimi Haddad, “History Matters”

    “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future” (11). Thus, quoting George Orwell’s 1984, Mimi Haddad opens the inaugural chapter of the third edition of Discovering Biblical...

    Anne Kennedy  /  June 22, 2023  /  CBMW  /  Eikon


  • Book Review: “Jesus and John Wayne”

    Editor’s Note: The following review appears in the Spring 2021 issue of Eikon. Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. New York: Liveright, 2020. “When...

    Anne Kennedy  /  April 5, 2021  /  CBMW  /  Book Reviews, Eikon