Talking taboo : American Christian women get frank about faith

Book 2013

"American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why do they feel like their young voices still aren't being heard? And if they found the courage to speak, what would they want to say? The latest book in...

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ISBN:

9781935952862
1935952862

Description:

xix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes discussion questions

Contents:

Foreword / Andrew Marin
Introduction / Erin Lane
Going in disguise / Amy Frykholm
Gatherer-God : on motherhood and prayer / Micha Boyett
Naughty by nature, hopeful by grace / Enuma Okoro
Becoming one flesh : thoughts on male headship in marriage / Amy Julia Becker
No one teaches us how to be daughters / aja monet
Married without children / Erin Lane
Living (together) without a blueprint / Bristol Huffman
High stakes whack-a-mole : noticing and naming sexism in the church / Lara Blackwood Pickrel
On being a strong woman / Julie Clawson
Crafting bonds of blood / Patience Perry
Leaving a marriage, finding Jesus / Sarah McGiverin
God of shit times / Rachel Marie Stone
Broken in the body, slain in the spirit / Tara Woodard-Lehman
Naming God for ourselves amidst pain and patriarchy / Rahiel Tesfamariam
Silence behind the din : domestic violence and homosexuality / Sarah Jobe
No women need apply / Gina Messina-Dysert
Woman of many questions / K.D. Byers
Hinges and doors / Andrea Palpant Dilley
Gender confusion A: navigating evangelical discussions of gender roles / Sharon Hodde Miller
Being a voice for the stranger / Jenny Hwang Yang
Pastor has breasts / Rebecca Clark
Joiner / Alena Amato Ruggerio
Free to believe : breaking with biblical authority / Jennifer D.Crumpton
God in the bedroom : does Jesus care how you make love? / Anna Broadway
Created for pleasure / Kate Ott
Thing of beauty / Katie Anderson
Tattooing my faith / Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
Recovery from the porch / Pilar Timpane
Sex, shame, and scarred knees / elizabeth mcmanus
Flesh and blood / Ashley-Anne Masters
Finding my voice / Sarah Thebarge
Pregnant silence / Katey Zeh
Woman undone / Grace Biskie
What do Cinderella, lilies, and the cross have in common? / Carol Howard Merritt
Running into glass doors / Atinuke O. Diver
Swing and the single girl / Meghan Florian
Beauty in brokenness / Nikole Lim
Celebration of strength / Christy Sim
My secret Buddhist life / Mary Allison Cates
Pastor in hiding / Marlena Graves

LCCN:

2013030475

Control Number:

969804

Other Authors:

Lane, Erin, 1984-
Okoro, Enuma, 1973-

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