Church Women

It’s the 1960s in North Carolina, and Lorraine Delford has it all—an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and an idyllic home complete with a white picket fence. Yet every time she looks through her father’s telescope, she dreams of leaving it all behind to go to space. It’s ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional.

Things ain’t never fair in love, and the harder these Carson brothers try, the more the drama seems to keep coming for them. Lance can’t seem to catch a break as one blow after have him caught between ICU and law enforcement. Just when he’s about to catch his breath, the worst of the worst slaps him in the face: baby mama drama. Tanya, his bitter ex, is determined to have the last laugh – and she’ll burn down anything that gets in her way. Just how far is she willing to go to exact the perfect revenge? The jagged triangle that is Ace/Gianni/Mason continues to prove dangerous to ...

Modern readers of the New Testament often notice its varying ideas about women. Some passages encouraged women to be submissive and remain silent. Yet in others, women characters owned property, headed households, or spoke with approval. Women in the New Testament World helps listeners understand this conflicting evidence. It argues that social norms of the time encouraged traditional feminine virtues. However, as Susan Hylen argues, women in the culture enacted these virtues in a variety of ways, including active leadership in households, associations, and cities.

The story of Kathleen's escape from incarceration in an institution for "fallen women." In 1974, the shadows of the Magdalene laundry still haunt Kathleen as she daringly escapes from a life of oppression. Now on the run, the priest is hot on her trail. As the priest's attention shifts to other lost souls, the consequences are nothing short of devastating. Meanwhile, a famous American actress and her wealthy husband have arrived in Ireland to adopt a baby and discover an unexpected offer they cannot refuse. Will it turn out to be a dream come true or a nightmare waiting to unfold? Enter the...

What’s done in the dark always comes to the light, doesn’t it? In part two of this jaw-dropping series, Ace's revelation has the family reeling with shock, but Paris is on cloud nine as she finally has the man of her dreams with no interruption—but will her bliss be short-lived as she and Ace struggle with choosing a hard right over an easy wrong? A lucrative record deal promises to bring Majesty the fame and fortune they’ve always dreamed of, but once the money is laid on the table, things take a treacherous detour when Danger’s true motives come spilling forth with a shock-wave ...

Black women are the hidden figures in the church. Despite at times being rendered invisible, uninvited, and unprotected in a racist and sexist world, they are valued image-bearers and influential instruments in God’s redemptive plan. Church Girl invites you, as a Black woman, on a journey from the garden to the present day. Your unique story as a Black woman lies within the grand narrative of Scripture, and the message of the gospel is the light, lens, and love you need to help you see and live as God intends.

Women’s rights activist, Lynn Cummings, switches up churches like shoes. As soon as her anointing is exposed, she runs – that is, until she finds a pew at First Baptist Church, where Lynn is anchored by the wiles of the debonair Pastor Stewart. Lynn, becomes the woman on Stewart’s arm, and with that, becomes the target of women who are always up in Pastor Stewart’s face, namely, his quote-unquote friend Bianca, the skin-bleaching, man-worshipping teen choir director who’ll stop at nothing to become Stewart’s first lady. Even Nay, the wife of Stewart’s right hand man, Associate...

Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders. Nijay Gupta calls us to bring these women out of the shadows by shining light on their many inspiring contributions to the planting, growth, and health of the first Christian churches.

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the Black church and in Black popular culture, showing how it is pivotal to reinforcing men's cultural and institutional power to discipline and define Black girlhood and womanhood. Drawing on writing by medieval thinkers and travelers, Enlightenment theories of race, the commodification of women's bodies under slavery, and the work of Tyler Perry and Bishop T. D. Jakes, Lomax shows how Black women are written into religious and cultural history as sites of sexual deviation.

Mildred Budge returns in Kingdom Come, a story about setbacks and how to face them. The fourth novel in the series, Kingdom Come, continues with the stories of Mildred, Fran, Winston, Janie, and Chase. In this story, Mildred’s Cloverdale bungalow is crowded. Her best friend Fran observes, “For a single woman, Mildred, your quiver is getting very full.” And it is. There is little room in Mildred’s Cloverdale bungalow for solitude and extended prayer, and Mildred Budge needs both. Many people do. And it is harder to find that kind of quiet in a world where background noise is as ...

When the car sailed over the embankment carrying the four members of the pulpit committee, Mildred Budge called out, “Jesus saves.” The others heard it, but they were also experiencing their own quick flashes of insight. Liz, a serial widow, felt unsatisfied with her life. She wanted more. Sailing toward her death, she still did. Sam, who had turned the steering wheel that had sent them over the embankment, was looking forward to the crash. He wanted to feel it—the hard slam of collision. His hands held the wheel tightly, bracing for it. Jake smiled. He resisted holding Mildred’s ...

“Step by step, I retreated from God and went forth to meet the world, the flesh, and the devil.... I’d join the devil himself.... There is no doubt that I traveled with him at my side and that he extorted a great price for his company.” This is how Bella Dodd (1904–69) described her long battle with atheistic communism, an ideology her Church calls a “satanic scourge.” She later described it as a “school of darkness,” a school of “hate,” a school for which she was a master organizer and infiltrator of every organization—public, private, and even ecclesiastical.

It's just a fitness tracker...right? ...but then again, Doug's a hacker! Doug makes his living hacking technology. Technically, he roots the device, finding every hidden feature. When he finally breaks into the code of the HipChip, the ubiquitous fitness device all the cool chicks are wearing, he finds out the hot and steamy truth. Far from just tracking heartrates and steps, the little device can reveal a person's hidden desires. This edition contains all six installments of the original series, plus a previously unreleased HipChip Short; Accessing the College Coed! Will Doug use his Alpha...

In The Priesthood Power of Women, author Barbara Morgan Gardner explores teachings of the living prophets and scriptures to increase our understanding of God's power as it operates in the temple, the Church, and the family. Her well-documented research demonstrates that women have more authority and power in all those settings than they may have previously supposed.

After nine years serving on the staff of a big urban church in Atlanta, Barbara Brown Taylor arrives in rural Clarkesville, Georgia (population 1,500), following her dream to become the pastor of her own small congregation. The adjustment from city life to country dweller is something of a shock - but small-town life offers many of its own unique joys. Taylor has five successful years that see significant growth in the church she serves, but ultimately she finds herself experiencing "compassion fatigue".

In Women of Hope, Terry Polakovic introduces these amazing women and describes the troubled times in which they lived and persevered. These women remind us that God can work through anyone to bring about his purpose. They prove to us that, as Christians, we can live in confident hope, no matter the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

The Bible is clear that women as well as men are created in God's image and intended to serve him with their lives. But what does this look like for women in the church? Helping church leaders think through what a Bible-centered women's ministry looks like, this collection of essays by respected Bible teachers and authors such as Gloria Furman, Nancy Guthrie, and Susan Hunt addresses a variety of topics relevant to women.

Christine is in desperate attempts to find her purpose amidst the horrible bullying and other dysfunctions from her past. Her naivety and the inclination to soothe her wounds through toxic relationships may prove fatal to her destiny when buried secrets resurrect in her pathway. Christine Wells is a young woman stripped of esteem and identity by poverty, bullying, and family dysfunctions who is determined to reach her destination of identity and purpose. These dysfunctions cause her to choose to engage in sexual relationships at a tender age. When we open ourselves up to sexual sin at a ...

In "Paul, Women and Church," Dr. Eddie Hyatt argues convincingly that Paul the Apostle was a friend of women and an advocate for their equal status in the gospel of Jesus Christ. He does this by showing the many women in Paul's life including friends, coworkers, and a spiritual mother. He also addresses the "hard sayings" of Paul where he seems to silence women and restrict their role in the church and home. Hyatt examines these passages within their cultural context and life setting and offers interpretations that affirm Paul as a friend of women and a champion for their complete freedom ...

In a debut memoir that is funny and earnest, Riley invites questioners, doubters, misfits, and curious believers to participate in the universal search to heal what life has broken. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome takes you by the hand and reminds you that sometimes you first have to be lost in order to be found.