Half the Church
Carolyn Custis James’ new book Half the Church:
Carolyn Custis James presents an inspiring vision of God’s plan for women that avoids assuming for them a particular social location or family situation. She reveals the surprising way God crafts a new identity for women who respond to the call of his kingdom—regardless of age, life stage, social location, and point on the globe.
Christopher J. H. Wright praised Half the Church, saying:
Carolyn Custis James combines passion for the suffering women of our world with rigorous biblical observation and exegesis. The result is a prophetic word that challenges both our apathy and ignorance in the face of terrifying facts, and our theological shallowness in the face of abundant biblical teaching. The title and subtitle only tell half the story. For this is a book for the whole church and urges us to see God’s global vision for men and women. Half the church badly needs to think again about the message of this book. So does the other half. Otherwise both halves are the tragic losers.
I love her earlier book Lost Women of the Bible: The Women We Thought We Knew. It contains great insights from a Christian woman, on many of the women in the Bible.
