Renewing Eve

Finding Life and Hope for Women in God’s Word

Revising My Post on 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

I have been thinking of revising this post for some time, because I have learned more since I last wrote. I could have simply replaced the old post with the new, but I thought it might be better to admit I am dissatisfied with what I published previously by posting a...

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Book Report #2

This is the second in my series of posts about books I am reading this year. As a reminder, I am trying to read a book a week. Thus far I have been reading for 13 weeks. I am using these posts to report on my...

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Welcoming Jocelyn Russell Wallace to Renewing Eve!

You may have noticed that there are long periods of time between our blog posts.  That is because both Ruth and I are busy and we don’t always have time to write or to edit one another’s posts.  We are committed to editing each other’s writing, because we have seen in...

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Book Reports!

As many of you know, I am a campus minister.  As such, I still pace my life and divide my seasons by the academic calendar. Since I’m on the academic calendar I usually have a few weeks off around the beginning of a new year.  The turn of the new year always spurs me...

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Beauty Part 4

I am writing a short series on Beauty. In my last post I talked about eating and fitness.  In the next two posts, I will write about two problems - my belief that I was ugly and the narrow definition of “biblical” womanhood - which created stumbling blocks to faith...

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Beauty #3

I am writing a short series on Beauty.  In the last post, I wrote about our clothing.  Today I will give some reflections about eating and fitness, with some help from two books, one which is written by two nutritionists and the other which examines how our faith...

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