How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership

Short review: These are short essays by fairly prominent Evangelical leaders about how they changed their mind about women in leadership. All the essays are from people that were changing their mind from a more restrictive position to a less restrictive or open embrace of women in leadership. About half of the authors I was fairly familiar with and about half were pretty much unknown to me, but I was often aware of the organizations that they lead or work for. So there is real credibility in the authors. The stories were a bit repetative (as you may expect) because the stories were often fairly similar. The authors grew up in conservative churches that believed that women should not lead men, they questioned the position or they observed how restricting women in leadership was harming the gospel, they spent time investigating scripture and talking to people that supported women in leadership and over time came to change their minds.

If your objections to women in leadership are primarily Biblical/theological this book has a good summary of current scholarship about the matter. A couple of authors admitted that their prior objections were primarily cultural and not theological and I think that part of the story is important too.


Full review on my blog at http://bookwi.se/women-in-leadership/