Nancy Claire Pittman

More Than a Womb

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“What defines a woman? A common answer is the capacity to bear a child, a presupposition that Lisa Davison challenges in every page of this fine exploration of childfree women in the Hebrew Bible. Davison slices open our assumptions about the inherent purpose of women and then dissects them through careful explorations of the women to whom children are not attributed. The identity and worth of women, Davison demonstrates, has little to do with childbearing and everything to do with their capacities for wisdom, leadership, courage, and faithfulness.”

Truth over Fear

World Religions

“‘But what can I do?’ well-meaning Christians often ask when confronted with the Islamophobia that permeates our nation. For starters, we could read Charles Kimball’s informative book Truth over Fear . Not only will we receive an overview of Islam and the story of Muslim-Christian interchange through the last six hundred years, we will gain the resources we need for not bearing false witness against our neighbors, for loving our neighbors, and for living peaceably with all our neighbors into a future marked by respect and care rather than hate and harm.”