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The Truths That Free Us: A Woman's Calling to Spiritual Transformation

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I loved this book so much that after I read a borrowed copy, I decided to buy my own. I meet with a group of female graduate students and we were all feeling frustrated by the constraints that we felt were being put upon our spiritual callings in the church and in the larger world. Fortunately, one of the women had read this book and lent it to me. Ruth Haley Barton does a great job of staying true to Scripture and in doing so, helping women stay true to themselves rather than standards that are set by others. There are chapters about sex and marriage, but also about vocation and other things that aren't usually found in Christian women's literature. She is a true scholar, but very readable at the same time. This was the perfect balance for me and I hope that it is for others as well.

There really was good bits to this book. Unfortunately, her accusation against Bible translators as being male and therefore biased against passages that dealt with women seemed terribly harsh if not arrogant. The basic line of reason goes as follows: "All Bible translators are bigots and have gotten this passage wrong. 'Authority' in the this Biblical passage really doesn't mean 'authority'in the greek." What does it mean? Hubcap?