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Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church, by Nijay Gupta (Book Review)
New Testament scholar shows us the world where women lived, worked, taught, ministered, led, and risked prison and death for Jesus.

Elaine R Kelly
Jul 14, 202327 min read
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Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership by Dr Ally Kateusz (Book Review on Mother Mary)
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and other early Christian Women were leaders in the Early Church; this book uncovers the evidence that was hidden.

Elaine R Kelly
May 31, 20235 min read
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Women Leaders at the Altar; Women Silenced (Mother Mary)
Book Review: Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership. Evidence of women leaders, including Mother Mary, serving the early church as priests and overseers.

Elaine R Kelly
May 30, 20237 min read
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Mother Mary and Jesus: Mother and Son
Book Review: Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership. Ancient records pair Mother and Son, Mary and Jesus.

Elaine R Kelly
May 28, 20237 min read
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Women and Worship at Corinth, by Lucy Peppiatt (Book Review analysis of 1 Corinthians)
Do you read fiction or non-fiction? I read both! I read fiction to get a feel for how to write fiction. I read non-fiction to portray my historical fictional settings and characters more realistically. Christian nonfiction frames Christian fiction. Egalitarian scholarship enlightens how to portray women in the bible in ministry & leadership. Below are a few of the books I read this spring. This post is about Women and Worship at Corinth. In this book, Lucy Peppiatt examines t

Elaine R Kelly
Feb 23, 202312 min read
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Beneath the Tamarisk Tree by Rob Seabrook (Biblical Fiction Book Review)
A biblical fiction of the thief on the cross

Elaine R Kelly
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Woman, This is War! Gender, Slavery and the Evangelical Caste System by Jocelyn Andersen (Book Review)
Book Review of Woman This is War which outlines why women must defend the attack on their equality in the church, and how feminism and equal rights are dismissed by the church.

Elaine R Kelly
Feb 22, 20239 min read
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Junia is Not Alone by Scot McKnight (Book Review)
Junia is not the only female apostle who has been hidden by the church (Book Review)

Elaine R Kelly
Feb 21, 20233 min read
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Local Media Coverage for Forgotten Followers!
The Hamilton Spec, TorStar, and NewsNow gave local media coverage for Forgotten Followers, new historical fiction empowering women

Elaine R Kelly
Jan 7, 20232 min read
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Who is the Seed of Abraham in God's Covenant? (A Story of Hagar: Book Review)
What does it mean to be the seed of Abraham and Sarah? Abraham and Hagar? Can we all be children of Abraham, with the rights of his sons?

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 25, 202213 min read
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Be Macho Men: Is that how to Imitate Christ? (Jesus and John Wayne Book Review)
Being Macho Men: is that how to imitate Christ? Or is it contributing to a non-democratic Christian Nationalism

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 21, 20228 min read
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Book Review: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald (Book Review)
Evangelicals: the struggle to shape America

Elaine R Kelly
Aug 4, 20225 min read
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The Apostle's Sister by Angela Hunt (Book Review)
The Apostle's Sister is a fictonal story of Aya, how she lived in the shadow of her brother Apostle Paul and was sidelined as a female.

Elaine R Kelly
Jun 9, 20225 min read
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Movie Review: The Jesus Film Project
The Jesus Film was one of the first resources I reviewed in preparation for writing my biblical fiction. It was produced by Campus Crusade for Christ in 1979 and is known for being one of the most-watched films dramatizing the Gospels. Se e my movie review below. The Jesus Film is a two-hour film telling the Biblical story of Jesus and God's redemptive love. It ran in American theatres in 1979 and is now translated into 1,724 languages and is recognized by The Guinness Book

Elaine R Kelly
Dec 20, 20213 min read
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became the Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr (Book Review)
How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth Beth Allison Barr explains how evangelicals defined biblical womanhood

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 19, 20215 min read
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Media Review: What She Said About the Bible (Podcast about female commentators)
Review of What She Said About the Bible, a podcast about women Bible interpreters and teachers.

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 10, 20213 min read
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What happened in the Garden of Eden? (Genesis 3) The Eden Podcast Media Review
A look at what the Eden Podcast reveals about Genesis 3. What really happened between God, Adam, Eve, and the snake?

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 8, 20214 min read
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The Female Disciples of Jesus by Paul De Marco (Book Review)
Author: Paul De Marco Published: 2021 (first edition 2017) 123 pages Genre: Non-fiction, Catholic Saints There is very little online about the author, Paul De Marco. He describes himself on Amazon as having a science background an d a deep interest in Christianity. Amazon Blurb: The female disciples of Jesus have largely been forgotten by historians and yet they played a crucial role in establishing the early Church despite living in a patriarchal society which was oppres

Elaine R Kelly
Nov 1, 20214 min read
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Racism in Christian Churches?
White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 11, 20213 min read
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Book Review: Deafening by Frances Itani
Book Review: Deafening. Even if you cannot hear with your ears, you can hear the message of hope in the face of trials.

Elaine R Kelly
Oct 10, 20213 min read
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Event Review: When Women Speak #WhenSheSpeaks
Media Event: When She Speaks with Beth Allison Barr, Kristin Kobes Dumez and Anthea Butler

Elaine R Kelly
Sep 28, 20216 min read
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