Applying thoughtful exegesis to faith and culture.

Read my latest books

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    A Longing To Belong

    Zondervan Reflective

    2024 Christianity Today Finalist Christian Living / Spiritual Formation

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    Surprised By The Parables

    Lexham Press

    2021 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist for Bible Study

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    Neither Complementarian Nor Egalitarian

    Baker Academic

    2017 Christianity Today Award of Merit for Biblical Studies

  • Paul, The Stoics, and The Body of Christ

    Cambridge University Press
    Society for New Testament Studies Monograph

About Me

Michelle Lee-Barnewall focuses on applying biblical exegesis and a gospel framework to cultural issues. She is the award-winning author of Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian and Surprised by the Parables. Her latest book is A Longing to Belong: Reflections on Faith, Identity, and Race (Zondervan). Michelle is a graduate of Harvard, Talbot School of Theology, and Notre Dame.

She has served on the editorial board for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Bulletin for Biblical Research and has been on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Biblical Research..

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