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A New Gospel for Women A New Gospel for Women tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), author of God's Word to Women, one of...
The Curious Life of Cecilia Payne Cecilia Payne loved learning to see nature’s wonders, even things other people called impossible. While studying at Cambridge, she dreamed...
Twelve Stones of Grace Born in rural Canada in 1937, Aletta Grace Bell defied poverty, gender expectations, and her mother's disapproval to become a...
Holy Mischief: In Honor and Celebration of Women in Ministry The ELCA has been ordaining women for fifty years. Mindy Makant interviews eighty-five female pastors across the Southeast about their...
A History of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity This book, the first history of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, traces the origins of the order in the...
Empowered Voices: Scandinavian Women in Early Pentecostalism The invisibility of women in historical research is a problem that requires dedicated attention and concrete efforts to overcome. This...
Women of Holy Week In the style of her bestselling Phoebe, Paula Gooder uses her extensive biblical expertise to retell the events of the...
The Mary We Forgot In The Mary We Forgot, award-winning church historian and theologian Jennifer Powell McNutt unpacks Scripture and history to reveal the real...
Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World: Book One: Gladys... Book One in the Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World series introduces readers to real-life missionary, Gladys Aylward, the ultimate...
Gritty and Graceful: 15 Inspiring Women of the Bible God gave girls grit and grace. From the very beginning, God looked to girls and women to teach, to lead,...
Finding Hagar Finding Hagar probes the relentless pursuit by the living God of a fugitive woman who falls outside the line of...
Crispina and Her Sisters Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda,...
The Biographical Bible: Exploring the Biblical Narrative from Adam and Eve to... The Biographical Bible offers an engaging overview of Scripture through the lens of the fascinating figures who populate its pages....
Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter Women of the Bible have long been trapped in dry and dusty literary caskets—but no more. In this groundbreaking book,...
An Extraordinary Teacher Show 3- to 7-year-old girls how they can be courageous just like heroic women in the Bible! When Priscilla joins...
All My Knotted-Up Life Beth Moore is a woman who's familiar to many people---but truly known by only a few. In this beautifully crafted...
Western Daughters in Eastern Lands This book provides a compelling narrative history of the experiences and achievements of female British missionaries in China, India,...
Water from a Deep Well In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the...
Unveiling Mary Magdalene The veil has been lifted.
Discover the Gospel truth about the most myth-understood woman of the...
Tell Her Story Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
A Comprehensive Look at Women Who Built the Early...
Strangers & Pilgrims Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth," an...
Southern Baptist Sisters When in 1845 the Southern Baptist Convention became the biggest Protestant "splinter group" in history--over the issue of slave ownership--women...
Shalom Sistas Like a lot of women, blogger Osheta Moore loved the idea of shalom: God’s dream for a world that is...
The Serendipity of Life’s Encounters Reflecting on her path to becoming the first woman to be given a personal Chair at the University of Durham,...
The Samaritan Woman’s Story Most Christians are familiar with this picture of the woman at the well: a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute....
Ruth: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary This commentary presents the book of Ruth through a uniquely Asian lens that helps bring out the nuances of this...
The Real Mary Would you like to meet the real Mary of Nazareth? The real Mary was an unmarried, pregnant teenage girl in...
Princess Ka’iulani On March 1, 1893, Princess Ka iulani, the seventeen-year-old crown princess of Hawaii, stepped onto the pier at New York...
Paul For someone who has exercised such a profound influence on Christian theology, Paul remains a shadowy figure behind the barrier...
Oh Thou Woman That Bringest Good Tidings About the Author
Dana Hardwick has a Master of Divinity and is an ordained Episcopal priest. She supplies and preaches...
No Time for Silence Denominations that formerly welcomed women in ministry often now oppose their ministry, not understanding their own history. No Time for...
Naomi and Her Daughters From master storyteller Walter Wangerin, Jr. comes this familiar biblical saga told in a fresh, transfixing way. You’ll feel you’ve...
The Mystic Way of Evangelism: A Contemplative Vision for Christian Outreach Elaine Heath brings a fresh perspective to the theory and practice of evangelism by approaching it through contemplative spirituality. This...
The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry John Wesley promoted the ministry of women in early Methodism. Amazing women like Phoebe Palmer, Catherine Booth, and Frances Willard—founding...
The Marys of the Bible The #MeToo movement is a global phenomenon. Several Christian organizations have been engaging with issues of abuse against women in...
Interpreting Life Interpreting Life depicts one Christian woman's struggle to determine her place in the home and church as the traditional roles...
Her Story Focus on women in the Christian tradition, from biblical times till now.
Her Heart Can See Fanny J. Crosby (1820-1915) was the most prolific of all American hymn writers. Having lost her sight in infancy through...
Hearts of Fire Eight women from eight different countries shared similar experiences of hardship and persecution, all for their faith in Christ. Yet...
Harriet Beecher Stowe "So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met...
Half a Piece of Cloth From dirt-floor huts to refugee camps to halls of power, Jane L. Crane traveled across Africa to see if the...
Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World: Book Four: Dr.... Book Four in the Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World series introduces readers to real-life astronomer and...
Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World: Book Two: Sisters,... Girls need heroes. Why not introduce them to women who are smart, bold, courageous, and who love Jesus? -Amy L....
Grit and Grace: Heroic Women of the Bible Experience the grit and grace of seventeen women of the Bible through creative first-person retellings of each person's story. This...
God’s Servant Ruth "God's Servant Ruth tells the story of Naomi, Boaz, and Ruth in verse. This beautifully illustrated book explains foundational theology...
Gateway To Iraq ...the compelling and poignant account of one woman's experience as a chaplain on the edge of war. When Dr. Rachel...
Five Women of the English Reformation Books on the history of the Reformation are filled with the heroic struggles and sacrifices of men. But this compelling...
Finding Phoebe Forget what you think you know about women in the early church. In this learned yet accessible book, Susan E....
Fearless Daughters of the Bible Bestselling Author Reveals How God Empowers Women for Leadership and Purpose Christian women are often led to believe they are...
Extraordinary Women of Christian History Christianity has long been criticized as a patriarchal religion. But during its two-thousand-year history, the faith has been influenced and...
Every Woman in the Bible Provides introductions to different periods of Bible history, focusing on the significance of women in those eras; and includes studies...
Early Methodist Spirituality An anthology of writings of late-18th and early-19th century Methodist women. Writings of early Methodist women have compelling stories to...
Dynamic Women of the Bible Though we often focus more on the male heroes and villains in the Bible, the pages of Scripture are brimming...
Dorothy Day: Friend to the Forgotten This fascinating biography chronicles the life of Dorothy Day, known the world over as the leader of the Catholic Worker...
Daughters of the Church Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years...
Daughters of Deliverance In 1886, thirty-one year old Katharine Bushnell gives up her medical practice to work with women living on Chicago's Hell's...
Creed without Chaos Introduces contemporary readers to the lay theological writings of British novelist and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers.
The Concept of Woman A comprehensive account of women in Western thought, from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages, to today In her sweeping,...
Catherine Booth How can people taking diametrically opposing positions on contemporary issues--dividing both religious communities and society--quote the Bible in support of...
Carved in Ebony Young Readers’ Edition A look at the inspirational lives of ten Black women of faith Do the names Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs,...
Carved in Ebony Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy...
Building the Old Time Religion "During the Progressive Era, a period of unprecedented ingenuity, women evangelists built the old time religion with brick and mortar,...
The Biographical Bible The Biographical Bible offers an engaging overview of Scripture through the lens of the fascinating figures who populate its pages....
And the Spirit Moved Them A decade prior to the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention. In...
American Women in Mission The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given...
50 Women Every Christian Should Know Throughout history, countless women have boldly stepped out in faith and courage, leaving their indelible mark on those around them...
