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AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN FEMALE AUTHORS:

Achievement Addiction. Dr Justine Toh

After the Exit. Elise Heerde

Behind the Picket Fence - The Lies Women Believe. Dawn Pryor

Bible Bites - 365 Devotions for Aussie Families. Ladeane Lindsay

Bringing Forth Life: God's Purposes in Pregnancy and Birth. Jodie McIver

Called to Care. Jo Knight

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

Hear Her Voice. Christine Redwood

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)

Preachers, Prophets & Heretics. Anglican Women's Ministry. Edited by Elaine Lindsay & Janet Scarfe

Priests of History. Sarah Irving-Stonebraker

Raising Women Leaders. Jacqui Grey, Shane Clifton

Redeeming Sex. Debra Hirsch

Renew - An Australian Guide for Christian Women Survivors of Domestic Abuse. Anglicare Sydney

Sam Kath Henry

Song of Solomon Kamina Wust

Surviving Childlessness. Steph Penny

Surviving Chronic Illness. Steph Penny

Surviving Infertility. Steph Penny

Ten Blessings of God You Won't Want to Miss Susan Barnes

Ten Things I Hate About God and How He Won Me Anyway Susan Barnes

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

Unfettered. Mandy Smith

Untamed. Alan & Debra Hirsch

Urban Spirituality: Embodying God's Mission in the Neighborhood. Karina Kreminski

Women and Men: One in Christ. Editors Denise Cooper-Clarke & Kevin Giles

Women in the Church - The Great Ordination Debate in Australia. Muriel Porter

Workship & Workship 2: How to use your Work to Worship God. Kara Martin

BIBLICAL EQUALITY:

** We recommend you start with these

A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the church. Christa L Kirkland

Ancient Israel's Women of Faith Claude F. Mariottini

** Becoming the Pastor's Wife. How marriage replaced ordination as a woman's path to ordination. Beth Allison Barr

Body Matters: A Feminist Theology of the Body. Paula Gooder

Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Boddy Haircuts. Michael Bird (Australian)

Created or Constructed? The Great Gender Debate. Elaine Storkey

Daughters of the Church Ruth A Tucker & Walter Liefeld

Dethroning Male Headship. Shirley Taylor

** Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, and Christa L. McKirland

Dynamic Women of the Bible Ruth A Tucker

Emboldened: A Vision for Empowering Women in Ministry. Tara Beth Leach

Equal. Katia Adams

Equality is Biblical - Lifting the Curse of Eve. Penelope Wilcock

Extraordinary Women of Christian History Ruth A Tucker

From Genesis to Junia. Preston Sprinkle

From Widows to Warriors Lynn Japinga

Gifted to Lead. Nancy Beach

**God's Yes To Women ed Anna Boxwell, Amy J Erickson, Laura Rademaker (Australian)

Good News for Women - A Biblical Picture of Gender Equality Rebecca Merrill Groothuis

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

I Suffer Not a Woman Richard and Catherine Clark Kroeger

Jesus and the Father - Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity. Kevin Giles

Jesus and Women. Kristi McLelland

Jesus Feminist. Sarah Bessey

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

Lydia. Paula Gooder

Malestrom. Carolyn Custis James

Mary - Glimpses of the Mother Jesus. Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Mary's Voice. Amy Orr Ewing

Men and Women in Christ: Fresh Light from the Biblical Texts. Andrew Bartlett

Men of Virtue: How the Fruit of the Spirit Forms Male Character in the Modern World. Zachary Wagner

Nice Girls Don't Change the World. Lynne Hybels

Non-Toxic Masculinity: Recovering Healthy Male Sexuality. Zachary Wagner

Now That I'm Called: A Guide for Women Discerning a Call to Ministry Kristen Padilla

Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament. Sandra Glahn

Origins of Difference - The Gender Debate Revisited. Elaine Storkey

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

Phoebe. Paula Gooder

Priscilla. Ben Witherington III

Raised from Obscurity: A Narratival and Theological Study of the Characterisation of Women in Luke-Acts. Greg Forbes & Scott Harrower (Australian)

Raising Women Leaders. Ed Shane Clifton & Jacqueline Grey

Reclaiming Eve. Suzanne Burden. Carla Sunberg. Jamie Wright

Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Aimee Byrd

Rediscovering Scripture’s Vision for Women. Lucy Peppiatt

Redeeming Eden. Ingrid Faro

Stewards of Eden: What Scripture says about the Environment and why it matters. Sandra L Richter

Strong Allies - Creating, Cultivating, Restoring. Lesley Ann Bustard

**Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. Nijay Gupta

10 Lies the Church Tells Women J Lee Grady

** The Blue Parakeet. Scot McKnight

The Epic of Eden. Sandra L Richter

The Gospel According to Eve: A History of Women's Interpretation. Amanda W. Benckhuysen

The Gospel of Ruth. Carolyn Custis James

** The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth Beth Allison Barr

The Mary We Forgot. Jennifer Powell McNutt

The Ministry of Women in the Church Elisabeth Behr-Sigel

The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians. Tom Wright

The Real Mary. Scot McKnight

The Sexual Reformation. Aimee Byrd

The Women of Ministry in the New Testament Dorothy A Lee (Australian)

25 Tough Questions about Women and the Church. J Lee Grady

Vashti's Victory - and other biblical women resisting injustice. Laverne McCain Gill

We've Been Fed a Lie! Jim Reiher (Australian)

What the Bible Actually Teaches About Women. Kevin Giles (Australian)

When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel according to Paul Beverley Roberts Gaventa

When Women Lead. Carolyn Moore

Whispering the Word Jacqueline E. Lapsley

Why Can't Women Do That? Philip B Payne & Vince Huffaker

Wisdom's Daughters - Stories of Women around Jesus Elizabeth G Watson

Womanist Midrash Wilda C Gafney

Women, Abuse, and the Bible : how Scripture can be used to hurt or to heal Catherine Clark Kroeger, James R Beck

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 Men in Scripture and the Church: A Guide to the Key Issues. Steven Croft & Paula Gooder

Women and their Ministry. Kevin Giles

Women and Worship at Corinth. Lucy Peppiatt

Women, Authority and the Bible. Alvera Mickelsen

Women before God Lavinia Byrne

Women Caught in the Conflict. Rebecca Merrill Groothius

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 Early Church Elizabeth A Clark

Women in the Earliest Churches. Ben Witherington III

Women in the Maze - Q&A on Biblical Equality. Ruth A Tucker

Women in the New Testament Francis J Moloney

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians. Lynn H Cohick

Women Leaders in the Church: 3 Crucial Questions Linda L Belleville

Women of Holy Week. Paula Gooder

Women of the Nativity. Paula Gooder

Women's Place is in the Story. Sandra Glahn

Women Who Do Holly Carey

Bible Studies:

The Eden series. (Ruth, Isaiah, Psalms, Jonah, Deborah, Eden) Sandra L Richter

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

All My Knotted-Up Life. Beth Moore

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

Introducing New Testament Interpretation Scot McKnight

Katie Luther - First Lady of the Reformation Ruth A Tucker

Loving Mercy. Simon Ponsonby

Meeting God in Matthew. Elaine Storkey

Mere Christianity. C S Lewis

Miracles Today. Craig Keener

More. Simon Ponsonby

On Earth as in Heaven. NT Wright

One Life. Scot McKnight

Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Tom Wright

Paul, the Spirit and the People of God. Gordon Fee

Philippians. Lynn Cohick

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

Preachers, Prophets & Heretics - Anglican Women's Ministry Ed. Elaine Lindsay & Janet Scarfe

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 (Australian)

Restorative Christ. Geoff Broughton (Australian)

Revelation and the End Times. Ben Witherington III

Say Yes to God. Kay Warren

** Simply Christian. Tom Wright

Simply Good News. Tom Wright

Subjects and Citizens. Michael Jensen (Australian)

Surprise the World. Michael Frost (Australian)

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 Eternal Generation of the Son. Kevin Giles

The First Letter to the Corinthians. Brian Rosner & Roy E. Ciampa

The Great Divorce. C S Lewis

The Inner Voice of Love. Henri Nouwen

** The King Jesus Gospel. Scot McKnight

The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us. Paula Gooder

The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians. NT Wright and Michael F Bird

The Parables. Paula Gooder

The Purpose Driven Life. Rick Warren

The Ragamuffin Gospel. Brennan Manning

The Rise and Fall of the Complementarian Theology of the Trinity. Kevin Giles (Australian)

The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. Lisa Sharon Harper

To Alter Your World. Michael Frost & Christiana Rice

Uncommon Graces. John Vawter

Unshakeable Hope. Max Lucado

What on Earth is the Church? Kevin Giles (Australian)

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

FOR OLDER TEENS AND FAMILIES

A Sneaking Suspicion. John Dickson

The Gift of Values Volume 1 & Volume 2. Rosie Boom

CHILDREN AND TWEEN BOOKS

Abigail and the Waterfall Sandra L Richter

Apprentice series. Kirsten Young (Australian)

I Could Be Anything. Dawn Pryor (Australan)

Invisible (and many more). Cecily Paterson (Australian) Website

Penny Preaches: Amy and Robert Ford Dixon

NOVELS

Restoring Hope. Philippa Cleall