 Women at the Well: Volume 1:
Meditations on Healing and Wholeness
Mary
L. Mild, Editor; foreword by Marjory Zoet Bankson
This collection offers perspectives for women
who seek a healthy Christian lifestyle. Readers gain spiritual insight from
contributors' stories of personal challenges and growth. $16.00;
ISBN
0-8170-1245-1
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 Women at the Well, Volume 2: Meditations for
Quenching Our Thirst
Linda-Marie
Delloff and Bernadette Glover-Williams, Editors; foreword by Emilie M.
Townes
This follow-up to the first best-selling volume
offers more than 250 devotions for spiritual nourishment written by women
from diverse backgrounds. $16.00; ISBN 0-8170-1404-7
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 Swallow's
Nest: A Feminine Reading of the Psalms
William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Co.,
1992
This is a wonderful resource of prayers, psalms and readings from the
feminine Christian tradition. All the psalms are translated as prayer
of women in various life situations and are part of a four week cycle
of morning, mid-day and evening prayer.
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 Sing Out New Visions: Prayers, Poems, and Reflections
by Women
Edited
by Jean Martensen. Augsburg Fortress Publishers. An ecumenical
collection produced in cooperation with the Justice for Women Working
Group of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA to
close the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women. To
order, call (800) 328-4648.
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 Celebrating Our Call: Ordination
Stories of Presbyterian Women
By
Patricia Lloyd-Sidle. Throughout 2005-2006 various events have been
and will be held to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
ordination of women in the Presbyterian Church as ministers of the
Word and Sacrament, as well as seventy-five years of their ordination
as elders and one hundred years as deacons. In this collection of
insightful essays, well-known women from across the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) reflect on their personal journeys of ordination as
church leaders. Contributors include Joanna M. Adams, Susan R.
Andrews, Deborah Block, Cynthia M. Campbell, Marj Carpenter, Moon
Young Choi, Melva Wilson Costen, Roberta Hestenes, Jane Parker Huber,
Marian M. McClure, Ofelia Miriam Ortega, Jean Marie Peacock, Barbara
A. Roche, and Letty M. Russell. This historically significant book is
ideal for clergy, educators, and church leaders and is the perfect
resource for church libraries. Order
here.
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 WOMEN
OF COLOR PRAY, Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage
Edited and with
Introductions by Christal M. Jackson
SkyLight Paths
(Woodstock, VT); www.skylightpaths.com; 800-962-4544
Quality Paperback
Original / $15.99 / 208 pages / 1-59473-077-6 / August 2005
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 Women
Pray: Voices through the Ages, from Many Faiths, Cultures, and
Traditions, edited and with introductions by Monica Furlong, is
available at bookstores or directly from SkyLight Paths Publishing,
Sunset Farm Offices, Route 4, P.O. Box 237, Woodstock, Vermont
05091; $19.95; Deluxe Hardcover with ribbon marker; add $3.95 for
shipping and handling for the first book, $2.00 for each additional
book. For credit card orders, call (800) 962-4544.
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 White
Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America,
by Malka Drucker, with photograph portraits by Gay Block is
available at bookstores or directly from SkyLight Paths Publishing,
Sunset Farm Offices, Route 4, P.O. Box 237, Woodstock, Vermont
05091; $24.95; Hardcover; add $3.95 for shipping and handling for
the first book, $2.00 for each additional book. For credit card
orders, call 800-962-4544.
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 Daughters
of the Desert: Stories of Remarkable Women from Christian, Jewish,
and Muslim Traditions, by
Claire Rudolf Murphy, Meghan Nuttall Sayres, Mary Cronk Farrell,
Sarah Conover, and Betsy Wharton, is available at bookstores
or directly from SkyLight Paths Publishing, Sunset Farm Offices,
Route 4, P.O. Box 237, Woodstock, Vermont 05091; Hardcover; $19.95;
add $3.95 for shipping and handling for the first book, $2.00 for
each additional book. For credit card orders, call 800-962-4544.
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 THE
DIVINE FEMININE IN BIBLICAL WISDOM LITERATURE
Selections Annotated &
Explained
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro
SkyLight Paths
(Woodstock, VT); www.skylightpaths.com; 800-962-4544
Quality Paperback
Original / $16.99 / 240 pages / 1-59473-109-8 / October 2005
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