As we continue our commitment to reading more women, our staff pulled together a few favorites for your Christmas wish list. These are the books we return to time and again—works that offer rich insight, fresh perspective, and the kind of wisdom that lingers long after the last page. We hope they inspire you, challenge you, and broaden your world as much as they have ours.
A Spiritual Life | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Daughters of Miriam, and Womanist Midrash | Wilda Gafney |
Commentary on Esther | Hélène Dallaire |
Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: | Mary R. Lefkowitz, |
Ordained Women in the Early Church: | Kevin Madigan, |
Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s | Cynthia Long Westfall |
Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters, | Marion Ann Taylor |
God’s Word To Women | Katharine Bushnell |
No Time for Silence | Jannette Hassey |
Daughters of Wisdom | Ahida Calderon Pilarski |
Egalitarian Christian Leadership, | Aída Besançon Spencer |
Marriage Made in Eden | Alice Matthews |
Women and the Gender of God | Amy Peeler |
All My Knotted-Up Life | Beth Moore |
The Very Good Gospel | Lisa Sharon Harper |
Preaching Ephesians | Lynn Cohick |
From Widows to Warriors: Women’s Stories from the Old Testament, and From Daughters to Disciples: Women’s stories from the New Testament | Lynn Japinga |
Finding Phoebe | Susan Hylen |
Mother, Mourner, Midwife | L. Juliana M. Claassens |
The Making of Biblical Womanhood | Beth Allison Barr |
Nobody’s Mother | Sandra Glahn |