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Cover art by Erin Kirk. Nevertheless American Methodists and Women’s Rights NEVERTHELESS Ashley Boggan Dreff AMERICAN 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. METHODISTS While some things have changed, others haven’t. AND WOMEN’S Th is book tells the story of American Methodist women’s fi ght for Th ank you for sharing this wisdom ‘for such a time as this.’” RIGHTS women’s rights, beginning with the Women’s Christian Temperance —Amy Valdez Barker, Executive Director of Global Mission Union and ending with the #MeToo movement. Each chapter Connections at the General Board of Global Ministries of Th e United documents particular Methodist women and provides the reader with Methodist Church Ashley Boggan Dreff a basic historic context of the time or situation at hand as it shows how Methodist women engaged and fought for women’s equality or women’s “Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights accomplishes rights in American society and American Methodism. the rare feat of time-travel by eff ortlessly weaving together the past, present, and future of Methodist women’s action for social holiness. Th e faith of these Methodist women emboldened them to reach beyond Five systemic issues—voting rights, racial equity, gender equality, their social confi nes to fi nd political avenues of social justice. As women abortion access, and sexual harassment—have galvanized the energy, engaged in mission, they sought not to fi x social ills but prevent them passion, persistence, and faith of Methodist women in their pursuit of from happening again. Th ey addressed the causes of oppression; and by an equitable society. While much has been accomplished, much still Opening Worship at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference stepping out of their place, they made a place for others. remains. In that regard, Dreff ’s work is both timely and sorely needed.” The144 opening pages worship of the 2012 United Methodist General Conference held in Tampa, Fla. brings together worshipers from around the globe. A UMNS photo by John C. Goodwin. June 2020 —Priscilla Pope-Levison, Associate Dean for External Programs and https://www.flickr.com/photos/umcommunications/7111203175/in/album-72157631882137132/ “Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff has done an outstanding job capturing the Professor of Ministerial Studies, Perkins School of Th eology, Southern Paper 9781945935770 stories of the female saints of the past on whose shoulders women Methodist University $18.99 leaders in the Methodist movement stand. From Frances Willard, to Anna Howard Shaw, to Mrs. Dorothy Tilly and many more, we are Ash ley Boggan Dreff , PhD, is Director of Women and Gender reminded of the struggles and disruptions many women faced in order Studies, Assistant Professor of Religion, High Point University, for women to stand and lead today. As one who helps lead at Global High Point, North Carolina. She is author of Entangled: A History Ministries, I am proud to carry on the legacy of so many women who of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality, winner of the 2019 fought for justice, freedom, and equality for all throughout the world. Saddlebag Award. AVAILABLE AT COKESBURY.COM; BOOKSTORE.UPPERROOM.ORG; AND AMAZON.COM. 1 Find Your Place in God’s Mission Jeremiah Gibbs FIND YOUR A step-by-step guide for hearing and claiming God’s calling for your life. IN GOD’S PLACE Th e purpose of Find Your Place in God’s Mission is to help students am grateful to Jeremiah Gibbs for off ering a transformative way to fi nd clarity about how God has uniquely gifted them to participate in wrestle with these questions as we strive to make sense of our passions, God’s ongoing mission for the sake of the world. Th is book provides a the world’s needs, and the tools we have to embrace and live out our structure and step-by-step guide for discerning God’s calling and corrects vocation—God’s call on our lives. Th is is a must read!” some misconceptions. Gibbs provides guidance and helps organize —Reginald Blount, Assistant Professor of Formation, Youth, and MISSION discernment into three intersecting categories: needs of the world, Culture, Garrett-Evangelical Th eological Seminary passions, and tools. Th is book is for students, youth and young adult pastors, counselors, chaplains, and campus ministers. “Packed with practical steps, real-life stories, and tools for learning, Find Your Place in God’s Mission is a fantastic resource for all seeking to Th e Christian walk leads us to move ever closer to God and take steps explore vocation and calling. As a local church pastor, I plan to share to deepen our calling to be faithful. But the urgency of that pursuit the book with our high school students, mentors, church leadership, Jeremiah Gibbs is especially poignant for teens and college students. Th ey often feel and anyone in the process of vocational and/or missional discernment. pressured, believing that if they don’t get this choice right, they may Jeremiah has a huge heart for helping students and guiding them in fi nd themselves outside of God’s will and be destined for less than God fi nding God’s vision and mission for their life, and I’m excited to have 142 pages intends. Th is practical and accessible book will help them fi nd their way this resource.” May 2020 and discern their path. —Brian Durand, Pastor, Clay United Methodist Church, South Bend, Paper 9781945935756 Indiana Ebook 9781945935763 “God is always calling persons to ministry in ways that allow for $16.99 personal authenticity and vocational passion. Th ank you, Dr. Jeremiah Jeremiah Gibbs, PhD, is University Chaplain and Director of the Gibbs, for speaking encouragement into the lives of students for such Lantz Center for Christian Vocation and Formation, Assistant Professor a time as this. Th is book is a helpful resource and literary gift off ered at of Philosophy and Religion at University of Indianapolis, and an elder the right time.” in Th e United Methodist Church. Gibbs was awarded the 2015 Francis —Bishop Julius C. Trimble, Indiana United Methodist Conference, Asbury Award for outstanding leadership and excellence in higher Th e United Methodist Church education ministries by the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministries. In addition, he has published academic “Th e two existential questions of life are ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Why am works on Pentecostalism, liturgy, apologetics, and bioethics for journals I here?’ Th ese are two fundamentally spiritual questions as well. I and periodicals. 2 AVAILABLE AT COKESBURY.COM; BOOKSTORE.UPPERROOM.ORG; AND AMAZON.COM. Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Jason E. Vickers and Jerome Van Kuiken Twenty-First Century General Editors Jason E. Vickers and Jerome Van Kuiken, General Editors Maps the path of pan-Wesleyan Christologies An international group of pan-Wesleyan scholars address this question Methodist Christologies through the Twentieth Century posed by Jaroslav Pelikan: What happened to Methodist Christology 4. Personalism in Methodist Christology – Reginald Broadnax after Wesley? Vickers’s work on Methodist Christology in Th e Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies sketched a preliminary answer. Th is 5. Christology “Human End Foremost”: Albert Outler and John book fi lls it out. Th e book is in two parts. Part one is a robust study of Deschner – Jerome Van Kuiken Methodist Christology from the Wesleys onward. Moving beyond the 6. Th e Christology of John B. Cobb Jr. – Michael Lodahl Christology historical survey, part two aims to set trajectories for the future of pan- Wesleyan Christology. Th e Futures of Methodist Christology From the Wesleys to the 7. Th e Image of God Is a Black Woman: Feminist and Womanist Twenty-First Century John Deschner’s monograph Wesley’s Christology (1960) blazed a trail for Christologies – Christina M. Smerick subsequent smaller-scale treatments of John Wesley’s doctrine of Christ, such as chapters in Randy Maddox’s Responsible Grace (1994) and Ken 8. Jesús was Born in Guatemala: Toward a Latinx Wesleyan Collins’s Th eology of John Wesley(2007). Th is book reopens a line of Christology – Edgardo Colón-Emeric interpretation that is ripe for reconsideration. 9. Essential Kenosis Christology – Th omas Jay Oord 300 pages Dec. 2020 Contributors: Reginald Broadnax, Paul W. Chilcote, Edgardo Colon- 10. Why Did God Become a Man of the Spirit? Toward a Wesleyan Paper 97819459357817 Emeric, John L. Drury, Chris E. W. Green, Justus H. Hunter, Michael Pentecostal Spirit-Christology – Chris E. W. Green $39.99 Lodahl, Th omas H. McCall, Mark K. Olson, Th omas Jay Oord, 11. Methodist Christology After Barth – John L. Drury Christina M.