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I’m hoping that I’ll get to review all these books this summer, but in the meantime, we’re going to start with one.

Each of these books-I thought-says something about the pulse of our time (though I guess it’s hard to know if it’s just the particular echo chamber I live in, or if these books are actually onto something). I did, however, make a few exceptions: Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood, Scot McKnight’s A Church Called Tov, Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne, Andrew Root’s Congregation in a Secular Age, and A.J. This is in large part because I don’t have enough Canadian literature informing my paradigm and shaping my imagination.

This year I’ve been selective about my American reading choices. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth.