Top Female Authors on Being the Church
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Christian Warrior Women: A Guide to Taking Back Your Faith, Family & Future (Christian Warrior Women Series Book 1)
by:
Lisa Hawkins
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings 2. 
More Than Enchanting: Breaking Through Barriers to Influence Your World
by:
Jo Saxton
4.29 avg rating — 112 ratings 
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Urban Spirituality: Embodying God's Mission in the Neighborhood
by:
Karina Kreminski
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 3. 
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To Alter Your World: Partnering with God to Rebirth Our Communities
by:
Michael Frost
4.35 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Don't Invite Them to Church: Moving from a Come and See to a Go and Be Church
by:
Karen Wilk
4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry
by:
Mandy Smith
4.28 avg rating — 192 ratings 13. 
Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods
by:
Sandhya Rani Jha
4.39 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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The Ministry of Ordinary Places: Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You
by:
Shannan Martin
4.23 avg rating — 3,821 ratings 17. 
Missional. Monastic. Mainline.: A Guide to Starting Missional Micro-Communities in Historically Mainline Traditions
by:
Elaine A. Heath
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World 4.19 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith 4.04 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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The Gift of Wonder: Creative Practices for Delighting in God really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Against the Tide, Towards the Kingdom
by:
Jenny Duckworth
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life
by:
Phileena Heuertz
4.08 avg rating — 330 ratings 31. 
The Nearness of God: Parish Ministry as Spiritual Practice
by:
Julia Gatta
4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings 
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Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World
by:
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
3.47 avg rating — 203 ratings 
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Truly the Community: Romans 12 and How to Be the Church
by:
Marva J. Dawn
4.03 avg rating — 74 ratings 36. 
Here, Now: Unearthing Peace and Presence in an Overconnected World
by:
Kate Merrick
4.23 avg rating — 607 ratings 37. 
Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith (Text version) (QIF Focus Books)
by:
Ruah Swennerfelt
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 38. 
The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness
by:
Jennifer McBride
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 39. 
Divine Abundance: Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Turquoise Table: Finding Community and Connection in Your Own Front Yard
by:
Kristin Schell
4.03 avg rating — 2,495 ratings 41. 
Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith
by:
D.L. Mayfield
4.20 avg rating — 825 ratings 42. 
The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor 4.19 avg rating — 5,599 ratings
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Church Turned Inside Out: A Guide for Designers, Refiners, and Re-Aligners
by:
Linda Bergquist
3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings 44. 
Dangerous Territory: My Misguided Quest to Save the World
by:
Amy Peterson
4.24 avg rating — 400 ratings 45. 
Practical Theology: In Search of a 'Disabled' God.
by:
Joanna Z. Ray
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 46. 
Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good
by:
Amy L. Sherman
4.02 avg rating — 531 ratings 47. 
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Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love (Prophetic Christianity
by:
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings 50. 
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Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society
by:
Marva J. Dawn
3.90 avg rating — 83 ratings 53. 
Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty, and Peace
by:
Christie Purifoy
4.24 avg rating — 936 ratings 
55. 
Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much
by:
Ashley Hales
3.91 avg rating — 436 ratings 
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Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth
by:
Vicki Robin
3.38 avg rating — 272 ratings 
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Mindful Silence: The Heart of Christian Contemplation
by:
Phileena Heuertz
4.28 avg rating — 238 ratings 60. 
The Resurgence Of The Real: Body, Nature, And Place In A Hypermodern World 3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Good Way Through: My Journey with God from Disappointment into Hope really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Your Vocational Credo: Practical Steps to Discover Your Unique Purpose 4.16 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Nation for All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division
by:
Chris Korzen
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings 72. 
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African, Christian , Feminist: The Enduring Search For What Matters
by:
Teresia M. Hinga
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 75. 
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
by:
Sarah Bessey
3.90 avg rating — 12,277 ratings 76. 
Woo: Awakening Teenagers Desire to Follow in the Way of Jesus
by:
Morgan Schmidt
4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings 
78. 
The Community Dream: Awaking The Christian Tribal Consciousness liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
79. 
Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life 4.11 avg rating — 823 ratings
81. 
Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day 4.28 avg rating — 668 ratings
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A Joyful Theology: Creation, Commitment, and an Awesome God
by:
Sara Maitland
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 83. 
Proclaim Jubilee!: A Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Maria Harris
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 
86. 
Character Witness: How Our Lives Can Make a Difference in Evangelism
by:
Christine Wood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
88. 
Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World
by:
Wangari Maathai
4.10 avg rating — 235 ratings 
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Right Here Right Now: The Practice of Christian Mindfulness
by:
Amy G. Oden
4.02 avg rating — 160 ratings 91. 
Replanting Ourselves in Beauty: Toward an Ecological Civilization
by:
Jay McDaniel
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
93. 
The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil: An Introduction (Library of Modern Religion Book 34)
by:
Lissa McCullough
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
95. 
God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity'
by:
Sarah Coakley
4.15 avg rating — 386 ratings 
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Coping With Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil
by:
Cecilia Mariz
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 98. 
Invited: creating a sacred space for everyone
by:
Sharon Roberts
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 99. 
Image As Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Listen to the Women!: Listen to the Earth!
by:
Aruna Gnanadason
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating