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The Making of Biblical Womanhood
How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
2021
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USA TODAY **BESTSELLER ● OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD�It is time for Christian patriarchy to end.**Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women.Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says historia...
Becoming the Pastor's Wife
How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
2025
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NEW YORK TIMES **BESTSELLERForeword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year Finalist (Religion)****"A blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church. . . . A powerful indictment of an unequal system."--**Publishers WeeklyAs a pastor's wife for twenty-five years, Beth Allison Barr has lived with assumptions about what she should do and who she should be.In Becoming the ...
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How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
2020
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Independent Press BestsellerThe “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.**Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationa...
The Great Sex Rescue
The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended
2021
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**MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES SOLD!What if the way Christians talk about sex actually makes it worse?**Based on a groundbreaking in-depth survey of over twenty thousand women, The Great Sex Rescue pulls back the curtain on what is happening in Christian bedrooms and exposes the problematic evangelical teachings that wreck sex for so many couples--while pointing couples to what they should have been told all along.Experience the relief of knowing that you are n...
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Queer & Christian
Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table
2025
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Celebrate queer faith and take your rightful place at God’s table with Brandan Robertson, the “TikTok Pastor,” Biblical scholar, and social activistFor too long, the Bible has been weaponized to exclude LGBTQ+ individuals, despite Jesus’ radical message of inclusion. In Queer & Christian, Brandan Robertson envisions a faith where all are unequivocally embraced.Ostracized at school, Brandan thought he had finally found his community when he joined t...
She Deserves Better
Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
2023
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You want your daughter to thrive--to be strong, confident, and equipped to step into the life God has for her.But what if the church is setting your daughter up to be small?Armed with data from an all-new survey of over 7,000 women, She Deserves Better reveals how experiences in church as teens affect women's self-esteem and relationships today. The authors expose common evangelical teachings that can backfire and instead advocate ...
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Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage
2025
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first major work since The Universal Christ, one of our most prominent spiritual voices offers a wholehearted and hope-filled model for the world today, grounded in the timeless wisdom of the Hebrew prophets.“Richard Rohr is one of the great Christian spiritual masters of our time. Of any time.”—James Martin, SJ, author of Come Forth**How do we live compassionately in a time of violence and despair? What can we do with ...
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Creating a Marriage That's Both Holy and Hot
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Bring greater satisfaction to your relationship in every way**--emotionally, spiritually, and physically****--whether** you're preparing for your honeymoon or are empty nesters looking for a new spark.Are you wondering if there's more to your sex life than the status quo? Or maybe you have questions about your upcoming marriage that aren't exactly appropriate for the rehearsal dinner? This edition of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex from...
Field Notes for the Wilderness
Practices for an Evolving Faith
2024
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community—from Glennon Doyle’s “favorite faith writer” and the author of Jesus Feminist and editor of A Rhythm of Prayer“This is the perfect guide for all those of who need to be reintroduced to a faith full of grace, mercy, and love.”—Kate Bowler, author of
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When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)
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“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or intimidate us or worry us, and then make those very places a meeting place with a God who is bigger and wilder and more wonderful and trustworthy than we ever could have guessed.”—Sarah Bessey, author of Out of Sorts and Jesus FeministThe author of How the Bible Actually Works and The Bible Tells Me So explains how our model ...
A Rhythm of Prayer
A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the weary, the angry, the anxious, and the hopeful, this collection of moving, tender prayers offers rest, joyful resistance, and a call to act, written by Barbara Brown Taylor, Amena Brown, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and other artists and thinkers, curated by the author Glennon Doyle calls “my favorite faith writer.”It’s no secret that we are overworked, overpressured, and edging burnout. Unsurprisingly, this fact is as old as time—...











