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, so you belong to the youth pastor?” Beth Allison Barr, James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History…
Nijay K. Gupta. Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2023. Tell Her Story by Nijay Gupta is a recent book defending egalitarianism on the basis that the Bible…
In this essay, we seek to provide a clear and robust dogmatic foundation for a distinctly Christian anthropology, one that coheres with critical covenantal distinctions and pressing Christological concerns.[1] We are convinced a lack thereof is plaguing the discourse on…
As American culture continues to degrade, Christians increasingly find themselves needing to defend biblical ways of thinking. Two recent books aggressively defend the Christian view of man and woman by debunking important and influential misunderstandings present in the broader culture.…
A very strange thing happened a couple of years ago. During Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate hearings for her appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee read an excerpt from former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s majority opinion…
That an Augustinian monk and a nun would be credited with establishing the ideal of the Protestant family is truly one of the most remarkable surprises of all church history.[1] The marriage of the notorious German reformer Martin Luther to…
Defining male and a female has become difficult for educated people. On March 23, 2022, the United States Senate was holding confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Jackson. Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn asked…
As a father of five daughters, I think a lot about what it means to be a good woman. This topic comes up somewhat often in our reading or choosing which films to watch, and discussions that emerge from these…
Beth Moore recently published an open letter that male leaders in evangelical churches ought to pay attention to—especially those who claim to be in the complementarian camp. We need to read it, process it, and repent of the ways we…
Mrs. Audrey Broggi joins her daughter, GraceAnna Castleberry, to discuss womanhood, mothering, singleness, women in ministry, and more.
“It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, the former S.S. man who had stood guard…He came up to me as the church was emptying, beaming and bowing. ‘How grateful I am for your message…To think…
My palms were beginning to sweat and the walls closed in around me. Instead of the rapid thump of our baby’s heartbeat a deafening silence filled the room. My grip around my husband’s hand tightened as the cold wand slid…
