Graham Joseph Hill is Research Coordinator of Stirling Theological College (University of Divinity) in Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding director of The Global Church Project and the author of Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World (with Grace Ji-Sun Kim); Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches; and Salt, Light, and a City: Ecclesiology for the Global Missional Community.
"Every church should make copies of Graham Joseph Hill's book
available, which pulls together a tightly argued case for
revitalizing women in their gifts, . . . It is peaceful yet firm,
biblical without being ornery, theologically sound without becoming
abstractions, pastoral without being condescending, and clear from
word one. I endorse and highly recommend Graham Joseph Hill's
Holding Up Half the Sky."
--Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary
"Graham Joseph Hill can be credited with soundly presenting the
case that having women in leadership matters immensely for mission
and ministry, not because some radical feminist manifesto said so,
but because Scripture and the history of the church proves so. An
eminently readable and persuasive case for women to be freed to
lead in the local church and in para-church organizations. Books
like these often change people's lives!"
--Michael F. Bird, Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology, Ridley
College
"Graham Joseph Hill offers a helpful study in support of women in
ministry which deals both pastorally, practically, and exegetically
with the relevant biblical texts and issues in a convincing way.
Highly recommended."
--Ben Witherington III, Amos Professor of New Testament for
Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary
"I am grateful for friends like Graham Joseph Hill who fight for
women's rightful position in the church. His prophetic voice speaks
with distinct truthful clarity about the role of women in the
church. Holding up Half the Sky examines the historical context and
cultural complexities of the early church and the Pauline writings,
later advancing towards revealing poignant theological and biblical
affirmations of the female presence and their promised roles in the
church. Hill's message will shape our understandings of the past
and guide our actions in the future."
--Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Professor of Theology, Earlham School of
Religion
"Just as Christians today no longer need to argue for the abolition
of slavery (despite the existence of many prima facie pro-slavery
passages in the Bible), so I hope--with Graham Joseph Hill--that
the need to make 'a biblical case for women leading and teaching in
the church' will become obsolete. In the interim, books such as
these will surely help us in the church get there."
--Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Associate Professor of Ethics, Claremont
School of Theology; and Co-Director, Center for Sexuality, Gender,
and Religion
"My hope is that this book will reach a new audience who will be
assured that women are not secondary in God's plans and that women
ministers are not a modern innovation but are present in Scripture.
God did not make women only to be assistants of men. God did not
intend for women to be restricted to support services within the
community of his people. Men and women working in partnership,
using their talents and gifts together without artificial
restrictions, can only enhance the health and the mission of the
church, and this mutuality brings glory to our Lord Jesus."
--Margaret Mowczko, writer and speaker
"I found it a delight to read Graham Joseph Hill's book, Holding Up
Half the Sky. It is a wonderful book that clearly and forcefully
puts the biblical case for women in leadership without any caveats.
It is well-written, well-argued, and well-researched. . . . It has
always been true that women hold up half the sky, and this has
become undeniably obvious in the last forty years. Appeals to a few
texts in the Bible to support the claim that men should be in
charge in the church, the home, and in society as well, make no
sense in today's world."
--Kevin Giles, author of What t
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