Church Librarian: Discussing "Tell Her Story" and Other Books on Women in Ministry.

Pastor Michael in conversation with Immanuel’s church Librarian, Janessa Driedger. They discuss the new book "Tell Her Story" by Nijay Gupta and others that may be helpful for people exploring the question of whether or not women are permitted Biblically to lead / pastor the church, and share their own journeys on the topic.

Some books referenced:

Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate by: Michelle Lee-Barnewall

Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta


Soft Complementarian:

  • Fight Like a Girl: The Power of Being a Woman by Lisa Bevere

  • Captivating: A Guided Journal to Aid In Unveiling the Mystery Of A Woman's Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge

  • Rocking the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage by Robert Lewis


    Egalitarian:

  • Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, ed. by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, and Gordon D. Fee.

  • I Suffer Not a Woman by Richard Clark Kroeger

  • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr

  • Ten Lies The Church Tells Women: How the Bible Has Been Misused to Keep Women in Spiritual Bondage by J Lee Grady


    Bible Reference:

  • Women in the Bible - John Baldock

  • All the Women of the Bible - by Lockyer or by del Mastro


    Biography:

  • These Impossible Women: 100 Years : The Story of the United Baptist Women's Missionary Union of the Maritime Provinces by Earl C. Merrick.

  • True Grit: Women Taking On the World, for God's Sake by Deborah Meroff

  • What Women These Christians Have! by O. Judith Chambers

  • Amy Carmichael

  • Elisabeth Elliot


    Women's writing on Christian beliefs:

  • Rebecca McLaughlin - written a number of apologetics books as well as Jesus Through the Eyes of Women

  • Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine by Dorothy Sayers (she also wrote a book called 'Are Women Human?' that Beth Allison Barr quotes a great deal and wrote a series of very good murder mysteries! )

  • Beth Moore

  • Catherine Marshall

  • Corrie Ten Boom

  • Hind Feet on High Place and other books by Hannah Hurnard


    Christian education:

  • Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on the Creative Process


    Christian Living:

  • The Book of Women's Sermons: Hearing God in Each Other's Voices by Lee Hancock


Podcasts:

  • Interview with Rick Warren, “Women Pastors and Saddleback getting kicked out of the SBC” August 7, 2023 episode of Preston Sprinkle’s podcast “Theology in the Raw”

  • The Holy Post with Phil Vischer & Skye Jethani

  • The Russell Moore Show

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