Books, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Women

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Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer
Escape
by Broadway (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-12-30)

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money ...

Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
by Free Press (Paperback)

A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, The Faith Club weaves the story of three women, their three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another. After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent,faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers to write an interfaith children's book that would highlight the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. After just a few meetings, however, the women realized that they themselves needed an honest and open environment where they could admit -- and discuss -- their concerns, stereotypes, and misunderstandings. After hours of soul-searching about the issues that divided them, Ranya, Suzanne, and Priscilla grew close enough to discover and explore what united them. A memoir of spiritual reflections in three voices, ...

Liz Curtis Higgs
Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them
by WaterBrook Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 1999-08-17)

Joanna Weaver
Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out
by WaterBrook Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-10-10)

“Lord, Whatever It Takes, Make Me Like You!”You long to serve God with grace and strength, to reflect Christ in every word and action. Yet you find yourself continually struggling to bring that vision to life in your daily walk.At our very core, every one of us is a “twisted sister” within whom the flesh and spirit battle constantly for control. We are afflicted with spiritual schizophrenia, the disconnect between our “good girl” desire to put Jesus first and our “bad girl” realities that crowd our thoughts and push him out of the way. In this life-changing book, Joanna Weaver, author of the perennial bestseller, Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, directs your gaze past your own shortcomings to the God who stands ready, willing, and able to make a new woman out of you. She equips you with biblical insights and practical tools to partner with Christ, inviting him into the hidden places of your soul and giving him full permission to redeem and renovate.Drawing ...

John MacArthur
Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible, and What He Wants to Do with You
by Thomas Nelson (Paperback)

They were ordinary, common, and in some cases shockingly low-caste, yet each was made extraordinary by her life-changing encounter with God. Readers will be challenged and motivated by Twelve Extraordinary Women, a poignant and personal look into the lives of some of the Bible's most faithful women. Their struggles and temptations are the same trials faced by all believers at all ages. Inside this book, best-selling author and Bible teacher John MacArthur shows that the God to whom they were so committed is the same God who continues to mold and use ordinary people today.

Sue Monk Kidd
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Plus)
by HarperOne (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-12-26)

"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening." ––Sue Monk Kidd For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, Kidd experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, author of When the Heart Waits tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women– one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ...

Sue Bender
Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
by Audio Renaissance (Audio Cassette)

Joyce Meyer
The Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear
by FaithWords (Hardcover)

'There is a wonderful plan for your life. You can hold your head up high and be filled with confidence about yourself and your future. You can be bold and step out to do new things -- even things no man or woman has done before. You have what it takes!' THE CONFIDENT WOMAN will enable you to live with purpose and fulfil your true potential. Joyce Meyer's number one New York Times bestselling book: * Gives you the keys to living a life of confidence and independence * Shows why you can live without fear * Helps you overcome the barriers of the world's false expectations and the emotional damage of abuse * Identifies the 'Seven Secrets of a Confident Woman' Joyce writes with the benefit of over three decades ministering to women. The message in this book is based on her personal journey from insecurity and self-hatred -- caused by childhood abuse -- to a life characterised by inspiring confidence and realising her full potential.

Jackie Kendall, Debby Jones
Lady in Waiting: Developing Your Love Relationships
by Treasure House (Paperback)

This is not just another book for singles! With humor, honesty, and biblical truths, the authors help point women to being the right woman and not just finding the right man. By studying the biblical character Ruth, women learn the characteristics that every woman of God should develop. Learn how to become a lady of purity, faith, contentment, patience, and more as you pursue a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus. You'll discover that only a relationship with your Heavenly Bridgegroom will satisfy!

Karen Armstrong
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
by Anchor (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-02-22)

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