Women

Women Deacons Past, Present, Future

By Gary Macy, William T. Ditewig & Phyllis Zagano Three related essays by experts on the diaconate that examine the concept of women deacons in the Catholic Church from historical, contemporary, and future perspectives. (Publisher’s description) Available at Christian...

Integrative Women’s Health

Edited by Victoria Maizes and Tieraona Low Dog  Women have made it clear that they desire a broader, integrative approach to their care. Here, for the first time, Integrative Women’s Health weaves together the best of conventional treatments with mind-body interventions, nutritional strategies, herbal therapies, dietary supplements, acupuncture, and manual medicine, providing clinicians with a roadmap for practicing...

Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity

By Elaine Wainwright Women Healing/ Healing Women begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings. What emerges by the first century of the Common Era is a world in which women functioned as healers but where healing...

Shattered Vows: Hope And Healing For Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed

By Debra Laaser   Infidelity doesn’t have to ruin your life – or your marriage If you have been devastated by your husband’s sexual betrayal – whether an isolated incident or a long-term pattern of addiction – you need to know you don’t have to live as a victim. If you choose to stay in your marriage, you have options other than punishing, tolerating, or ignoring your spouse; in fact, extraordinary growth awaits a woman willing to...

Sex and the Soul of a Woman: How God Restores the Beauty of Relationships from the Pain of Regret

By Paula Rinehart  Compassionate counselor Paula Rinehart understands the high price a woman pays in loosening her sexual boundaries, and the unique role sex plays in forging a bond meant to last a lifetime. She shows women how to break free from the bondage of misused sexuality and create a new beginning in their relationships with men. This is required reading for every college-age woman who longs for a man to see her beauty and...

The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman’s Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

By Harriet Lerner In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger, outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged – by distance, intensity, or pain – she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness...

Finding Eve: Discover Your True Identity as a Daughter of God

By Rita Springer Find your way to the heart of God, where you will discover all you need to fulfill His purposes for your life. In Genesis 3 the serpent came to Eve and within moments caused her to think she was lacking something. When she looked at the forbidden tree, she saw that it was pleasant to the eyes, good for food, and had the power to make one wise. Although she already possessed beauty, provision, and an intimate...

Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands

By Gary L. Thomas If you’re sick of all the ways you’ve tried to bring about change in your marriage – the silent treatment, nagging, one-way discussions, or pleading – it’s time to set aside those broken methods for a Christ-based approach. This book demonstrates how women can inspire, influence, and help their husbands move in positive directions. Replacing your plan of action with God’s leads to a marital transformation where both...

Her Choice to Heal: Finding Spiritual and Emotional Peace After Abortion

By Sydna Masse   What do 33% of American women have in common?  They’ve experienced abortion. You might be one of these women. Or maybe it’s your friend, sister, coworker, or the woman sitting next to you at church. Regardless, post-abortive women are in pain, and at some point, most will experience post-abortion syndrome (PAS), a form of post traumatic stress disorder. But they may never talk about it. Many are silent...

Forgiven and Set Free: A Post-Abortion Bible Study for Women

By Linda Cochrane Coming to terms with the pain, guilt, and grief of an abortion. Forgiven and Set Free, an inspired Bible study that can be used by individual women or by a group, effectively ministers God’s healing grace to women who are suffering remorse and guilt after an abortion. This study was developed out of Linda Cochrane’s experience of being freed from the bondage of guilt and grief that followed her abortion....

Apples of Gold: A Six-Week Nurturing Program for Women

By Betty Huizenga   Discover a program that takes seriously the biblical admonition for older women to mentor younger women. Learn about how to set up an Apples of Gold study group, including what personnel and funding are needed, scheduling and planning. Lessons on kindness, loving your husband and children, submission, purity and hospitality are based on Titus 2:3-5. Here’s what women are saying about Apples of Gold . . ....

A Friend in Me: Building Trust With the Next Generation of Women

By Pam Havey Lau   Young women long for relational connection. Yet, without realizing it, more mature Christian women often distance themselves from women in their twenties and thirties because they use different language to talk about God or have different views on church and theology. In A Friend in Me, Pam Lau shows readers how to be a safe place for the younger women in their lives. She offers five patterns women need to...

Through the Fire: Healing for Hurting Women

By Marie Youngblood   Abuse runs deep. Many people try to silence it, however abuse is real. Three out of four women will become victim to some sort of abuse.   Through the Fire councils woman who are victims of abuse and helps them through their grieving process by using a Bible-based curriculum, with verses as well as female figures from the Bible who also experienced abuse.   This book illustrates and explains the “me trinity,”...

A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God’s Sovereignty

By Joni Eareckson Tada   Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni a quadriplegic. Today, she faces a new battle: unrelenting pain. The ongoing urgency of this season in her life has caused Joni to return to foundational questions about suffering and God’s will. A Place of Healing is not an ivory-tower treatise on suffering. It’s an intimate look into the life of a mature woman of God. Whether readers are enduring...

A Journey Toward Contentment

By Robyn Joy An in-depth, 10-week women’s Bible study on learning how to be content through the experiences of life. A Journey Toward Contentment is designed to help readers see that the Scriptures are alive and active. The inspired Word of God is love letters written with you in mind, from the heart of God. These love letters will activate your soul to bring comfort, encouragement, tenderness, and rest. You can find contentment...

Passion and Reason: Womenviews of Christian Life

By Grace D. Cumming Long Grace Cumming Long provides us with a Christian ethics from the perspective of women’s experience, rooted in passion and reason, emotion and research. Through a collage of autobiographical narratives and feminist theologies Cumming Long constructs an unconventional approach to moral questioning, using the arts of cooking, painting, quilting, and weaving to illuminate how Christians must be creative in...

Lies Women Believe And the Truth that Sets Them Free

By  Nancy Leigh DeMoss   Satan is the master deceiver and his lies are endless. And the lies Christian women believe are at the root of most of their struggles. “Many women live under a cloud of personal guilt and condemnation,” says Nancy Leigh DeMoss. “Many are in bondage to their past. Others are gripped by fear of rejection and a longing for approval. Still others are emotional prisoners.” In best selling...

Lies Young Women Believe And the Truth that Sets Them Free

By  Dannah Gresh & Nancy Leigh DeMoss You have been lied to! Have you been deceived? Through a nationwide survey and in-depth discussion groups, Nancy and Dannah have listened carefully to the heart of your generation. And here are some things they’ve heard: “I know God should be the only thing that satisfies, but if it could be Himand my friends, then I could be happy.” “It seems like I have been...

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

By Ellen Bass and Laura Davis Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future.  The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. Weaving together personal experience with professional...

Women Healing From Abuse: Meditations for Finding Peace

By Nicole Sotelo Women Healing from Abuse assists Christian women who seek a holistic healing path after they have experienced abuse. With approximately one-third of all women in the United States having experienced abuse, this book is both timely and helpful. It looks at psychological theory on trauma and healing through a Christian lens and offers women a way to heal that takes seriously the fullness of their lives – body,...

Healing for a Woman’s Emotions

Paula Sandford   Grief, sorrow, loss and trauma can be overcome by God’s grace and support of women. Paula Sandford writes specifically to release women from damaging thoughts and feelings – into healthy, whole and fulfilled lifestyles. Written not only for all women, but also for the men who love them; Paula Sandford teaches release from damaging thoughts and emotions in this classic. Healthy self-acceptance and the foundational...