International Women’s Day: Earlier this year, millions of women lined up to form a human “wall” of protest to call for gender equality in India. The story is one of many from our blog that we’re highlighting for International Women’s Day — dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women in all arenas: social, economic, cultural, political and personal. To highlight the March 8 commemoration, here are some of the remarkable women and women’s movements we’ve covered over the past year.... Read more

Susan Shaw’s excellent post: In the 1970s, greater numbers of women entered the six Southern Baptist seminaries, many professing a calling to the pastorate, even though most churches still refused to ordain them. I grew up Southern Baptist and was a student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1980s. By that time, women were about a third of the student body, although very few women were professors. This was also a time when fundamentalists took charge of the Southern Baptist... Read more

Description: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (PPJ – Part 4) – KR 124 The last body of Jewish literature that E.P. Sanders investigates in Paul and Palestinian Judaism is the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. Scot explores Sanders’s synthesis of this literature to shed light on questions like how do works come from faith and how do rewards and punishments work within covenant nomism? Sign up for Reading Romans Backward here Read more

From Beth Allison Barr, featuring Beth Moore, Which starts here… In Let Me Be A Woman, Elliot draws a clear line in the sand. Women are different from men, and women should stop trying to claim equality with men. Women’s submission is the divine order of the universe and it is time for women to embrace it.  As she writes: “It is a naive sort of feminism that insists that women prove their ability to do all the things that men... Read more

One of the most interesting insights is the nothing new under the sun phenomenon, at least when it comes to human nature. We’ve been working through Craig Allert’s new book Early Christian Readings of Genesis One. Several years ago I read and posted on Peter Bouteneff’s book Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives. In this book Bouteneff looks at several of the early church fathers including the Cappadocian Fathers, Basil and the two Gregories, Gregory of Nazianus... Read more

The newest resource for lectionary preachers, which means turning soon to the weeks of Advent, is a new multi-volume series called Connections, and now volume 2, covering Lent Through Pentecost, is coming available: Connections C: 2). The first volume can be purchased here: Connections C: 1, Buy one volume each season in the church calendar and in three years you will have a complete commentary on the whole lectionary. You will also have a multitude of suggestions on how to... Read more

Source: For scholars, the phrase “publish or perish” has become an ironclad rule of academic career development. Without a sufficient number of publications in the right kinds of journals, tenure and promotion are just a pipe dream. But another, much less studied aspect of faculty work can also shape the arc of a career in the professoriate. It is not teaching or service. It is the invited talk. The talks can take many forms. There are the ever-popular seminar series,... Read more

John Walton and his son J. Harvey Walton, The Lost World of the Torah, and the 5th part of their book will prove to be the most controversial. Why? W&W anchor the Torah in the Ancient Near East (ANE), in the covenant God made (exclusively) with Israel (not the church, and the covenant and its legislation stipulations are about God’s presence with Israel. We are not in that covenant so what is said to that covenant people is not “to”... Read more