When I picked up this book and scanned the table of contents to see which biblical women James McGrath writes about, I admit that I made some hasty judgments. What will he—a male scholar—add to what I ...

According to the Talmud, the first instructions on how Jews should celebrate the holiday of Purim were set down by one of its founders: Queen Esther, who with her cousin Mordechai helped save the Jews ...

In October 2024, I was privileged and delighted to talk with Richard Hays at the CenterPeace Conference in Dallas.

Women in the Bible – saintly or schemers, victims or victorious in war or in wooing – don’t actually notch a lot of verses of dialog. But these days their choices and actions, resonating throughout ...

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In a recent survey, Baptists are the least likely to endorse women in deacon or senior pastor roles. Most Protestant pastors say a woman could be the senior pastor at their church, but that varies ...