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Confronting Sacred Inequalities Creating Christian Organizations Where Women Thrive Leanne M. Dzubinski
Prominent male Christian leaders are consistently called to account for improper behavior with women in their organizations. There are certainly a few bad actors, but is something else systemically amiss in Christian organizations? Leanne Dzubinski shows how secular inequalities have been imported into Christian spaces and treated as sacred. Whether from ancient or modern culture, beliefs about women that do not align with Scripture and God’s view of women have too often been promoted as biblical. She explains how organizational dysfunction is often caused by systems that prioritize men over women in ways that are detrimental to the organization as well as to the people in them—men and women alike. Dzubinski describes five pitfalls that often occur in Christian organizations that make it difficult for women to flourish: an undue focus on sexuality, language that marginalizes women, assumptions about work culture that leave women feeling like they constantly fall short, ambivalence toward women, and cultural and Christian stereotypes that frame leadership as male. Each chapter offers scriptural perspectives and practical suggestions to help leaders create organizational cultures where everyone can flourish and work together as siblings in Christ.
FEBRUARY 2026 • 176 pages • $22.99 • paper • 9781540967589
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Leanne M. Dzubinski (PhD, University of Georgia) is dean of faculty development and global education at Westmont College. She pre- viously taught at Asbury Theological Seminary and Biola Univer- sity and served for more than twenty-five years in cross-cultural ministry. She is the author of Playing by the Rules and the coauthor of Glass Walls and Women in the Mission of the Church.
Introduction
1. “Sex and the Office”: The Problem with a Stained-Glass Partition 2. “Hey Guys!”: How Language Shapes Organizational Culture 3. “I Can’t. I Have to Work.”: The Toxic Cocktail of Societal Expectations 4. “Are You Sure That’s Right?”: Ambivalence Toward Women 5. “There Are No Good Women Leaders”: The Power of Social Role Stereotypes Conclusion: Some Final Questions and an Invitation Index
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR WOMEN IN THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH $26.00p • 9781540960726
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