Resurrecting Eve

Resurrecting Eve is a compelling, informative and provocative read!  It speaks with clarity to the confusion and pain of Christian women who embrace the teachings of Jesus but are denied authenticity, mutual worth, dignity and justice by the dogma of Christian fundamentalism...It reveals the pervasive effect the devaluation of the feminine has, and has had, upon women, men, families, relationships, culture and the church...Resurrecting Eve helped me to appreciate feminine consciousness, embodiment, and my faith in a new light.  I believe it will inspire an honestly revitalized relationship with myself, others and with God.

Lynn Blanche

Resurrecting Eve: Women of Faith Challenge the Fundamentalist Agenda is a gripping and incisive examination of Christian Fundamentalism and its repressive doctrines toward women. But it is much more than insightful analysis. Sohl and Pughe write beautifully and perceptively about the lives of women who have been negatively affected by this movement and what we can do to make the Christian Bible an instrument of joy, healing and empowerment rather than harm. 

Carlene Cross
Author:  Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister’s Wife Examines Faith

A book I just could not stop thinking about.  The lessons of Resurrecting Eve are rendered in a gentle nurturing way, by two women I feel must be very much like myself.  This believable work made me realize exactly why I am who I am.  I now have a far deeper understanding of the rubric within which I live, this Christian life that is all of me.  That "lightbulb" moment, when I realized the skin I'm in and how I wear it everyday...and how it has shaped my life...was so profound for me. 

Bea Madden

Resurrecting Eve seeks to remedy the limitations and disparagements of the patriarchal religious tradition. It is a powerful, scholarly, spiritual, reasonable book. Roberta and Paula are to be admired for their historical research, their feminine sensitivities, and their brilliant capacities to take the tradition to task in order to offer a beautiful metaphysic to women, and to men. Well done, thou good and faithful servants.

Sharon Blessum

I especially like the way Paula and Roberta re-explain the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in a modern context, using a personal voice to show how the ancient ideas can be applied to modern problems.  Dealing with real people they have encountered – from clients in Roberta’s counseling practice to Paula’s own children – the authors show how the story of Eve can be a destructive or constructive force, depending on how its message is conveyed, especially to women.  I think it is an idea whose time has come – the idea that Eve is not the cause of all the world’s evils (a la Pandora, opening the box) but rather a strong, curious, assertive woman figure who is willing to take risks, make decisions, and be herself.

Marcia Hunter

Eve rises like magma from a volcano, in this stunning book by Roberta Pughe and Paula Sohl, completely reforming the lay of a Christian Fundamentalist land...The true stories of women in this book are sometimes horrifying, always poignant, and ultimately hot—boiling, seething, turning the granite of repression molten with their intention towards justice. Each voice is a form of Eve, erupting, spilling over, making new ground—good ground in which to plant seeds of freedom and of love, changing the face of the earth.

Christin Lore Weber