![]() ![]() ![]() She tells stories where I would assert propositions. Although Sarah Bessey writes well and although I pretty much agree with her, I found reading the book’s initial pages to be a long, hard slog. So why not read and review something normal people actually liked?Īs per usual, I listened to my wife, returned to Barnes & Noble, purchased a copy, and started reading. And the kind of books I liked to read were nerdy, she said, and no one other than me cared about them. Then my wife told me I needed to read Jesus Feminist. So, I left Sarah Bessey on the shelf and exited the store sans book. And despite being theologically egalitarian, I don’t like the word feminist. I didn’t like the juxtaposition of the Cross and the Venus symbol. You know our mothers told us never to judge a book by its cover? I ignored that advice when I saw Jesus Feminist on the shelf at Barnes & Noble. Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women (New York: Howard Books, 2013). ![]()
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