New & Noteworthy: God's Gender, ‘Women Talking,’ and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.
A group of Mennonite women are standing and sitting in a barn filled with crates and hay bales in the film 'Women Talking.'
From Women Talking

Do We Stay or Do We Go?

Women Talking centers on Mennonite women wrestling with how to respond to serial sexual assault by men from their colony. The film explores the complexity of forgiveness and touchingly reminds viewers that leaving one’s community can be an act of faith.
United Artists Releasing

The Spoken Word

Poet and pastor Drew E. Jackson remixes Luke’s gospel into free verse in Touch the Earth: Poems on The Way. Jackson’s biblical reimagining allows readers to receive old stories with fresh eyes, reaffirming the gospel as both timely and timeless.
IVP

Heavenly Mother

In Women and the Gender of God, New Testament scholar Amy Peeler questions the assumption that God is male. She pushes readers to allow God’s glory to transcend human constraints and categories, and to open ourselves to serving — and being loved by — a God who is not masculine.
Eerdmans

This appears in the April 2023 issue of Sojourners