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A Woman’s Place Is in the Story We Misread the Bible When Women Are Left Out
Ignore them, marginalize them, or dismiss them as brief cameos―these have...
Redeeming Eden Redeeming Eden stands out by highlighting the often overlooked but significant role of women in shaping redemptive history. It weaves...
Brave Girls Bible Stories Young girls will grow in their knowledge of the Bible and in their faith by getting to know our Brave...
Liberation is Here: Women Uncovering Hope in a Broken World As a freelance filmmaker, Nikole Lim's career allowed her to step in and out of the lives of marginalized people...
Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters This timeless question proves critical as we seek to understand our purpose, identity, and significance. Amidst the many voices clamoring...
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us “From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what...
Eve, Where Are You?: Confronting Toxic Practices against the Advancement of Women Without question, having competent women in leadership can certainly enhance the vitality of any organization. Sadly, too often women are...
Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters What does the Old Testament—especially the law—have to do with your Christian life? In this warm, accessible volume, Carmen Joy...
Glass Walls: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back... A new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual...
Knowing and Being Known: Hope for All Our Intimate Relationships In today's landscape of digital interactions, many people long for deeper connections. We have a desire to move from being...
Becoming God’s Family: Why the Church Still Matters After waves of disillusionment, #churchtoo movements, and political divides, it’s easy to question the value of investing in the church....
For the Love of Women Despite the undeniable progress for women and girls in the 20th and 21st centuries, misogyny is still alive and well...
Worthy Girl From early on, young girls seek to find their place and voice in a complex world that tells them who...
A Year of Biblical Womanhood See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as "master" and "praises him at the...
The Woman They Wanted The Woman They Wanted recounts Shannon's remarkable experience inside Big Church—where she was asked to live within a narrow definition of...
Women of Faith and Courage "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace..." (I...
Women and the Gender of God A robust theological argument against the assumption that God is male.
While many Christians would readily affirm this truth, the...
Talking Back to Purity Culture The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, and many have started families of their own. But as...
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...
In My Grandmother’s House "In a world eager to promote the newest wunderkind, grandmother theology carries us two or more generations back: to the...
How God Sees Women "This is, in my opinion, the best book on the complementarian / evangelical egalitarian debate. Buy a copy, buy copies...
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...
Womanist Midrash, Vol. 1 Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her...
Why Can’t Women Do That? In many Christian churches, women are told they can't do certain things simply because they are women. Women can't preach....
When Others Shuddered When Others Shuddered: Eight Women Who Refused to Give Up is the story of eight women called to serve God...
When Love Hurts “Every woman who is struggling to understand the mistreatment she is experiencing in her relationship should begin by reading [this]...
Voices Long Silenced Hundreds of women studied and interpreted the Bible between the years 100-2000 CE, but their stories have remained largely untold....
The Very Good Gospel “On these pages, the Garden of Eden meets the world we live in.”
– Shane Claiborne, activist and author
The Verbally Abusive Relationship In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread...
Valiant or Virtuous? This book explores a systematic bias in translating the Bible and in interpreting its teachings, which suggests that men are...
Two Views on Women in Ministry What does the Bible say about women's roles in the church? With pros and cons on either side of a...
Tiny Tin House In the Christian States of America, where religion rules, one woman discovers the only rules are about survival.
Although...
Three in One: Analogies of the Trinity Throughout history, Christians have pictured the relationships between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through analogies. Such illustrations--some from the West...
Tell Her Story Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist
A Comprehensive Look at Women Who Built the Early...
Teenage Girls: Exploring Issues Adolescent Girls Face and Strategies to Help Them Analyzes the major issues of teenage girls focusing on their relationships with friends and family as well as cognitive issues....
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse In a breakthrough book first published in 1991, the authors address the dynamics in churches that can ensnare people in...
Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership Spiritual Practices for Burnt Out Leaders
"I'm tired of helping others enjoy God―I just want to enjoy God...
She Deserves Better What if the goal of raising a Christian girl was about more than keeping her virginity intact? What if it...
Seven Transforming Gifts of Menopause Menopause is a dramatic but largely overlooked developmental window to the second half of life. Although today's women are more...
Rediscovering Scripture’s Vision for Women Does God call women to serve as equal partners in marriage and as leaders in the church? With careful exegetical...
Reading While Black Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address...
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, Women and Church No one has been more maligned and misunderstood than Paul in regards to his views about women. In Paul, Women...
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes 2012 Christianity Today Book Award winner!
Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people....
Paul An intimate portrait of a complex individual through whom God was at work, turning the world upside down. With vivid...
On Purpose Many Christian women are torn between how the church has taught traditional gender roles and the liberty they see secular...
Nobody’s Mother Does "saved through childbearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 mean that women are slated primarily for rearing children? Sandra Glahn thinks...
Nice Girls Don’t Change the World Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” My version of...
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...
Motherhood A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood.
What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by...
The Moment of Lift "A timely call to action for women's empowerment by the influential co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation identifies...
Mentor for Life Mentor for Life confronts specific challenges facing the church, and offers mentoring from the perspective of intentional discipleship as a...
Mary’s Voice in the Gospel According to John A New Light on John’s Gospel The Gospel according to John has always been recognized as different from the “synoptic”...
Marriage in the Middle Midlife is a season of challenge and change―professionally, relationally, physically, and spiritually. On our better days, we experience a sense...
Man Enough Nate Pyle uses biblical examples of masculinity, as well as his own story of not feeling "man enough", to help...
The Making of Biblical Womanhood Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From...
Lost Women of the Bible You know the women of the Bible, but you don’t know them like this... It’s easy for Christian women—young and...
Leading Well A Black Woman's Guide to Effective, Barrier-Breaking Leadership Black women in leadership positions often experience resistance, both from external forces...
Jesus Through the Eyes of Women If the women who followed Jesus could tell you what he was like, what would they say?
Jesus's treatment of...
Jesus Feminist Gender roles have been debated for centuries, and now Sarah Bessey offers a clarion freedom call for all who want...
Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage One out of three married women sitting in an average conservative Christian church is in a confusing and painful marriage...
The Invention of Wings From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel...
Introducing Christian Doctrine Leading evangelical scholar Millard Erickson offers a new edition of his bestselling doctrine text (over 100,000 copies sold), now thoroughly...
Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview This volume by a Cherokee teacher, former pastor, missiologist, and historian brings Indigenous theology into conversation with Western approaches to...
How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? You're beautiful, worthy, and you should be loved Because of all that you are. Different from anything else in the...
Hearts of Fire Eight women from eight different countries shared similar experiences of hardship and persecution, all for their faith in Christ. Yet...
The Great Sex Rescue What if it's not your fault that sex is bad in your marriage? Based on a groundbreaking in-depth survey of...
The Gospel of Ruth Traditionally, the Book of Ruth is viewed as a beautiful love story between Ruth and Boaz. But if you dig...
The Gospel According to Eve Do women and men have different intellectual, spiritual, moral, or emotional capacities? Over the centuries, women have read and interpreted...
Gender Roles and the People of God Surveying both the Bible and church history, author and professor Alice Mathews demonstrates the full partnership that God calls men...
Finding Phoebe Forget what you think you know about women in the early church. In this learned yet accessible book, Susan E....
The Equipping Church Picture your church as a place where the priesthood of believers finds its expression in creative and powerful ways. Picture...
The Emotionally Destructive Marriage You can’t put it into words, but something is happening to you. Your stomach churns, your heart aches, and the...
Emboldened Women are central to the mission of God. Pastor Tara Beth Leach issues a stirring call for a new generation...
The Diversity Playbook Diversity Playbook offers a unique opportunity to gain a sneak peek into the world of the other. Michelle R. Loyd-Paige...
Discovering Biblical Equality The conversation about gender roles in Christian life and the church has evolved, but the topic continues to inspire debate...
Daughters of the Church Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years...
When Life and Beliefs Collide A book that calls us to be a composite of two women--Mary and Martha--who take time to know Jesus better...
Creating Cultures of Belonging While many faith-based organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership, they still fail to embody a culture that...
Color-Courageous Discipleship Discover a Christ-centered approach to antiracism that will empower you to be transformed as you transform your world. “A clear...
Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition Teens will discover a Christ-centered approach to antiracism that will empower them to be transformed as they transform their world—with...
A Church Called Tov "Scot and Laura do an amazing job of teaching us what a good church looks like." --Beth Moore
What is...
Christian Theology Leading evangelical scholar Millard Erickson offers a new edition of his bestselling textbook, now substantially updated and revised throughout. This...
Carved in Ebony Elizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy...
The Blue Parakeet In this bold, engaging reexamination of reading the Bible, Scot McKnight calls all Christians from both ends of the spectrum...
Black Girl Cry How many times have you heard the advice, "Don't cry. You don't want to seem weak."? Have you ever considered...
Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife Ruth Tucker recounts a harrowing story of abuse at the hands of her husband, a well-educated, charming preacher no less,...
Birthing Hope In these profound reflections on the mysteries of life and death, Rachel Marie Stone unpacks how childbirth reveals our anxieties,...
The Bible Vs. Biblical Womanhood The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood by New Testament scholar, Philip B. Payne, presents clear and understandable interpretations of the most...
7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership Unleash your leadership by identifying and overcoming the limitations you place on yourself in the workplace.
Women are called by...
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...
Confronting Sexism in the Church Despite real progress, women continue to be silenced, wounded, and relegated to the sidelines in our churches. But we can...
We Too "Timely and necessary...This book is not only a warning. It is an opportunity. An opportunity to live out the gospel...
Prey Tell Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual...
The #MeToo Reckoning The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse in every sphere of society, including the church. But all too often, churches...
Is it Abuse? "Providing practical tools and exercises, counselor Darby Strickland shows how anyone can recognize clues suggesting abuse, identify oppressive behavior, and...
In Our Backyard This book is the primer on human trafficking in North America. In recent years, Americans have woken up to the...
Redeeming Power Power has a God-given role in human relationships and institutions, but it can lead to abuse when used in unhealthy...
A Call to Action In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation...
Safe Church Drawing on new, firsthand research and in-depth interviews, Safe Church allows women to voice the pain they have suffered at the hands...
Women Rising