Anabaptist or not, Scot McKnight comes out swinging in his bite-sized eBook defending women in ministry, “Junia is Not Alone.”

I. Loved. It.

Of course it contained the solid, thoughtful scholarship we’ve come to expect from McKnight. But what blessed me about this book was his passion. Women have not only been silenced, our heroines have been flat-out erased, their stories muted by neglect at best, ugly ulterior motives and misogynistic agendas at worst. And that, McKnight fumes, is not okay.

It’s always befuddled me that people could think of women’s standing in the church as some sort of unimportant secondary issue, something to be held loosely and regarded coolly. Do we not realize that this has a significant personal impact on more than half the church? Do we not acknowledge that the limits we do or do not place on women impact ministry efforts, evangelism and world missions? Do we not consider the implications this has for women’s understanding of their standing before God? (Not to mention men’s understanding of a woman’s standing before God–and before them. Ideas have consequences, and the consequences of subjegation tend to be ugly, like the thistles growing up in the field, hindering the work God has for us to do in the world.)

“Junia is Not Alone” is only $2.99 on Amazon or BN.com. (Those links will take you directly to the order page for the book.) If you don’t have a Kindle or a Nook, you can download a free reading app for either on your desktop or smartphone. Quick, go buy it!!! I mean, seriously–what are you still doing here?