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This book may be twenty-five years old, but it is anything but anachronistic. Both scholarly and approachable, the argumentation is impeccable and the citations good. #GoodNewsforWomen #Groothuis #RebeccaMerrillGroothuis

Good News for Women: A Biblical Picture of Gender Equality, by Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997. 272 pages. Around the mid-twentieth century, the church began to re-examine its traditional patriarchal stance on the nature and role of women in family, church, and life. For centuries, the church believed women were inherently inferior – physically, mentally, and…

On Trans-everything. A Summary from Douglas Groothuis

“I am nearly sixty years old. I have been studying, writing about, and teaching about culture, philosophy, theology, and art diligently and for decades. I have never seen the revolt against God-given categories of being as we are seeing now. Men identify as women. Women identify as men. Whites identify as blacks. The healthy identify as disabled. Most of these bogus identifications require…