RECOMMENDED READING - THE BOOK SHELF
AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN FEMALE AUTHORS:
Achievement Addiction. Dr Justine Toh
Behind the Picket Fence - The Lies Women Believe. Dawn Pryor
Bringing Forth Life: God's Purposes in Pregnancy and Birth. Jodie McIver
Confessions of an Amateur Saint. Mandy Smith
Daughters of Freedom. Janet West
Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives. Kylie Maddox contributed a chapter titled, Complementarianism and Domestic Abuse: A Social-Scientific Perspective on Whether ‘Equal but Different’ Is Really Equal at All.
Doors are for Walking Through. Robyn Claydon
For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than You Ever Imagined. Natasha Moore
God's Love in Action. Pastoral Care for Everyone. Jill McGilvray
Grief must be felt. Kath Henry
Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture. Edited by Jill Firth and Denise Clark
Holy Hell: Saved So Hard I Needed Therapy. Elise Heerde
Mafanikio Theology. Tamie Davis
Our Mob, God’s Story: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Share their Faith edited by Louise Sherman & Christobel Mattingley
Phosphorescence. Julia Baird (also author of Bright Shining, Victoria, Media Tarts)
Priests of History. Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
Raising Women Leaders. Jacqui Grey, Shane Clifton
Sam Kath Henry
Surviving Childlessness. Steph Penny
Surviving Chronic Illness. Steph Penny
Surviving Infertility. Steph Penny
Ten Tips for Atheists. Dr Natasha Moore
The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History by Meredith Lake
The Hillsong Movement Examined: You Call Me Out Upon the Waters (Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies). Tanya Riches & Tom Wagner
The Ministry of Women in the New Testament. Dorothy A Lee
The Multicultural Challenge to Sydney Anglican Identity. Mersina Papantoniou
The Pleasures of Pessimism. Dr Natasha Moore
The Poor, the Crippled, the Blind, and the Lame: Physical and Sensory Disability in the Gospels of the New Testament Dr Louise Gosbell
The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry. Mandy Smith
They Shall See His Face. Linda & Robert Banks
Time Poor. Soul Rich. Anna Winckel
21 Gifts: A Sacred Dance Through Grief and Healing. Raewyn Elsegood
Urban Spirituality: Embodying God's Mission in the Neighborhood. Karina Kreminski
Women and Men: One in Christ. Editors Denise Cooper-Clarke & Kevin Giles
Workship & Workship 2: How to use your Work to Worship God. Kara Martin
Body Matters: A Feminist Theology of the Body. Paula Gooder
Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Boddy Haircuts. Michael Bird (Australian)
Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, and Christa L. McKirland
Emboldened: A Vision for Empowering Women in Ministry. Tara Beth Leach
Finally Feminist. John Stackhouse
Gifted to Lead. Nancy Beach
God and the Feminists: How the Church Has Failed Women and What to Do About It. Beth Felker Jones
Gospel Women. Richard Bauckham
Half the Church. Carolyn Custis James
Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women. Are they related at all? Kevin Giles (Australian)
Holding Up Half the Sky. Graham J Hill (Australian)
How God Sees Women. Terran Williams
** How I Changed my Mind About Women in Leadership. Alan F Johnson
Junia - the First Woman Apostle. Eldon Jay Epp
Junia is Not Alone. Scot McKnight
Lead like the Real You. Amy Orr Ewing
Lost Women of the Bible. Carolyn Custis James
Malestrom. Carolyn Custis James
Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts. Andrew Bartlett
Nice Girls Don't Change the World. Lynne Hybels
Patterns of Ministry Among the First Christians. Kevin Giles (Australian)
Paul and Gender. Cynthia Long Westfall
Paul, Women, and Wives: Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul. Craig Keener
Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Aimee Byrd
Rediscovering Scripture’s Vision for Women. Lucy Peppiatt
**Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. Nijay Gupta
The Bible, Gender, and Church Leadership: A Case for Women in Ministry. Tom Wright
The Blue Parakeet. Scot McKnight
We've Been Fed a Lie! Jim Reiher (Australian)
What the Bible Actually Teaches About Women. Kevin Giles (Australian)
When Women Lead. Carolyn Moore
Why Can't Women Do That? Philip B Payne & Vince Huffaker
Women and the Genesis of Christianity. Ben Witherington III
Women and the Gospel: Theological Reflections on the Gospel of Luke. Paula Gooder
Women and Men: One in Christ. Editors Denise Cooper-Clarke & Kevin Giles
Women and Worship at Corinth. Lucy Peppiatt
Women in a Patriarchal World. Elaine Storkey
Women in the Church: A Biblical and Theological Exploration. Beth Allison Barr
Women in the Church. Stanley Grenz & Denise Muir Kjesbo
WOMEN IN THE BIBLE:
Jesus and Women. Kristi McLelland
Junia - the First Woman Apostle. Eldon Jay Epp
Lydia. Paula Gooder
Phoebe. Paula Gooder
Priscilla. Ben Witherington III
Reclaiming Eve. Suzanne Burden. Carla Sunberg. Jamie Wright
**Tell Her Story. Nijay Gupta
The Gospel of Ruth. Carolyn Custis James
Women in the Earliest Churches. Ben Witherington III
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians. Lynn H Cohick
Women of Holy Week. Paula Gooder
Women of the Nativity. Paula Gooder
General:
15 New Testament Words of Life. Nijay Gupta
A Bird's Eye View of Luke and Acts. Michael Bird (Australian)
A Church Called TOV Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer
A Jesus Shaped Life. Lisa Harper
A Spectator's Guide to World Religions. John Dickson
Bearing God's Name. Carmen Joy Imes
Becoming God's Family. Carmen Joy Imes
Being God's Image. Carmen Joy Imes
Body: Biblical Spirituality For The Whole Person. Paula Gooder
Broken Signposts. NT Wright
Bullies and Saints. John Dickson
But is it Real? Amy Orr Ewing
Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church. Katelyn Beaty
Choose Joy. Kay Warren
Discovering Genesis. Ian Provan
Everyday God. Spirit of the Ordinary. Paula Gooder
Following Jesus. Henri Nouwen
Following King Jesus. Scot McKnight
God is For Us. Simon Ponsonby
God's Empowering Presence. Gordon Fee
Heaven. Paula Gooder
How God Became King. Tom Wright
How to Hear God. Pete Greig
How to Pray. Pete Greig
How to Read the Bible Book by Book. Gordon Fee, Douglas Stuart
How to Read the Bible for all its Worth. Gordon Fee, Douglas Stuart
Loving Mercy. Simon Ponsonby
Meeting God in Matthew. Elaine Storkey
Mere Christianity. C S Lewis
Miracles Today. Craig Keener
More. Simon Ponsonby
Pivot. The Priorities, Practices, and Powers That Can Transform Your Church into a Tov Culture. Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer
** Practicing Christian Doctrine. Beth Felker Jones
Praying like Monks, Living like Fools. Tyler Stanton
Preaching in a New Key. Mark Glanville (Australian)
Purpose Driven Life. Rick Warren
Reading Genesis. Marilynne Robinson
Religious Freedom in a Secular Age. Michael Bird
Restorative Christ. Geoff Broughton
Subjects and Citizens. Michael Jensen
Surprise the World. Michael Frost
Surprised by Hope. Tom Wright
Surprised by Scripture. Tom Wright
Surrender to Love. David Benner
The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus' Crucifixion. Tom Wright
The Divine Conspiracy. Dallas Willard
The First Letter to the Corinthians. Brian Rosner & Roy E. Ciampa
The Great Divorce. C S Lewis
To Alter Your World. Michael Frost & Christiana Rice
Uncommon Graces. John Vawter
Where is God in all the suffering? Amy Orr Ewing
Why I Am Protestant. Beth Felker Jones
Why Trust the Bible. Amy Orr-Ewing
SEXUALITY AND MARRIAGE
Boundaries in Marriage. Dr John Cloud
"He Chose Porn over Me": Women Harmed by Men Who Use Porn. Melinda Tankard Reist (Australian)
Fixed It For You (worksbook) Sheila Wray Gregoire
Nine Thoughts That Can Change Your Marriage: Because a Great Relationship Doesn't Happen by Accident. Sheila Wray Gregoire
Recovering from Purity Culture. Dr Carmen Morgante
(see an interview with CBE here)
She Deserves Better. Sheila Wray Gregoire
Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality. Rachel Joy Welcher & Scott Sauls
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex. Sheila Wray Gregoire
The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex. Sheila Wray Gregoire
The Great Sex Rescue. Sheila Wray Gregoire
The Marriage You Want. Sheila Wray Gregoire and Dr Keith Gregoire
31 Days to Great Sex: Love. Friendship. Fun. Sheila Wray Gregoire
Why I Didn't Rebel. Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach
MEDITATIONS / DEVOTIONALS
Comfort and Cheer. Rosie Boom
Hope Faith Truth - Encouragement for the Soul. Dawn Pryor (Australian)
Journalling the Psalms. Paula Gooder
A Sneaking Suspicion. John Dickson
The Gift of Values Volume 1 & Volume 2. Rosie Boom
I Could Be Anything. Dawn Pryor (Australan)
Invisible (and many more). Cecily Paterson (Australian) Website
Apprentice series. Kirsten Young (Australian)
NOVELS
Restoring Hope. Philippa Cleall