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James Vardaman Professor @baylor_history;
NYTimes & USA-Today bestseller @brazospress
pastor’s wife & mom
co-host @alltheburiedwomen

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Topic: The pastor’s wife: ministry as inherited role.

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✨a friendly reminder that we contain multitudes and we know what we want to talk about and what feels good and right and what doesn’t.

✨we know who we are and no one can take that knowing from us.

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#women #theology #feminist #author #intuition

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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME!! J'ACCUSE now available !#medieval #metoo #womenshistory #booksofinstagram

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Thought for the week!
#fixinghereyes #Jesus #BiblicalEquality

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September allowed me the opportunity to read 35 books. Here are the Christian books I got to read:

📘 The Accident by @fictionauthor.amheath (reread)
📘 Hours We Regret by @chelseamichellemysteries
📘 Chaos We Unravel by @chelseamichellemysteries
📘 A Mother in the Making by @gabrielle_meyer
📘 The Mafia Boss and the Christian Girl by @nicole_lam_author (reread)
📘 By Mercy Unbroken by @chelseywelwood.author
📘 Thief of Corinth by @tessaafshar
📘 A Home for Her Baby by @gabrielle_meyer
📘 When the Waters Came by @candicesuepatterson
📘 All the Suspects on Campus by @heatherdaygilbert
📘 One Nine by @davisonsara
📘 Bravo by @jessicaashleyauthor (#ClearlyChristianReadathon buddy read)
📘 An Accusing at the Old Bailey by @ericavetsch
📘 The Baby Proposal by @gabrielle_meyer

📗 Light of the Word by Susan C. Lim
📗 Persecuted for My Name by S.E. Wang and @timkellernyc
📗 The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness by @timkellernyc
📗 Becoming the Pastor's Wife by @bethallisonbarr
📗 You Don't Need a Ph.D. to Find G-O-D by @authorjamesfinke
📗 Every Good Endeavor by @timkellernyc
📗 Jesus Are Carbs by @theabbiefrye
📗 What Grows in Weary Lands by Tish Harrison Warren

Happy October!

Christian Books | Christian Fiction | Christian Non-Fiction | September Reads Book covers of first six Christian fiction books listed in post content over image of blue hydrangeas

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"What if we followed the example of Jesus, who let Mary of Bethany sit at his feet like a male disciple and who overruled his disciples to make sure he heard the words of the woman of Canaan? What if we realised that, even when the male disciples pushed women away, Jesus always listened to women speak?"

#fixinghereyes #Jesus #BiblicalEquality

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Just learned I’m a New York Times Best Selling Author!

Okay. That’s not *technically* true.

But @kkdumez new book, “Live, Laugh, Love” just became a New York Times best seller and she did quote me in the last chapter, so I’m going to need everybody to let me have the technicality.

What I deeply appreciate about Kristin’s book is that we share the same views on what whiteness has done to, & with help from, our sisters in the faith.

Because the argument I was making then, and still believe, is that we diminish culpability when we call this “brainwashing.”

Brainwashing gives us a villain. Discipleship gives us a system. Forces us to ask what we were taught. What we were rewarded for believing. What we were taught to fear & protect. Who we were taught to BE.

Kristin’s book explores that formation in the history of white Christian women & it makes the conversation between her book & mine vital to hear.

Live, Laugh, Love magnifies how this world was made. Fire in the Whole asks what happens to the people who were wounded by it.

So if you’re reading Kristin’s book right now, thinking, “Oh. So THAT’S how we got here!”, consider adding Fire in the WHOLE to your TBR.

#exvangelical #exevangelical #deconstruction #livelaughlove #newyorktimes

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Evangelical women are an important part of my research interests. So, when I saw an opportunity to join the launch team for @kkdumez new book “Live Laugh Love” I knew it was a good use of my outside class reading time. I read it over the summer and posted my full review before heading out to Texas for class. She just happened to be doing launch events in the cities I was going to be in and different friends were attending each event - so I got to see so many friends on the trip and even met new friends! I joked with her that I was basically a groupie following her around Texas. 😆 It was also great to meet other launch team members and they each shared what the book had meant to them. So thankful that Kristin has put all of these connections together and is helping make sense of the history of evangelical women. See my review on my webpage or in substack, link in bio.

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I have a lifetime’s worth of experience anticipating something for a long time and then feeling let down.

This was not that.

My book launch day and launch party were beautiful, joyful, and everything I ever dreamed of. The women in my community rallied and made the most gorgeous spread of food and treats, the most beautiful decor and flowers. And the men came with bells on, supporting and uplifting my voice and my work. And to have it in our beloved neighborhood park that has held so many memories made it that much more meaningful.

We had signature drinks (swipe allll the way to the end) — you could order a Holy Water, or, if you were abstaining, the Holiest of Waters.

A true pinch-me moment from top to bottom. I absolutely cannot believe the loving, supportive community I get to be a part of.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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I stand deeply grateful on the shoulders of women who have gone before me. They have been mentors, teachers, and inspirations. Women whose courage and work have helped clear a path for so many of us.

These are just a few of them!

And I hope my upcoming devotional-style book, To God’s Daughters: 30 Truths to Challenge the Messages That Shaped You, can be one small contribution to the path they have helped create.

One of the hopes behind To God’s Daughters is to take important truths and offer them in a “dosable” format—creating space for women to reflect, practice, and internalize them over time.

I am so grateful for the women who have been willing to speak, write, question, challenge, and shine a light on things that needed to be seen.

More information about how to pre-order coming soon!
#ToGodsDaughters

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These are the books that changed me and, in many ways, helped me write my own. 📚❤️

They helped me exam what I’d been taught, understand how trauma lives in the body, untangle purity culture and patriarchy, understand racism & the black body, reclaim the feminine and reconnect with a spirituality rooted more in love than fear.

They gave me language for things I had felt for years but couldn’t always name.
✨ Between the World and Me - @ta_nehisi_coates_on_the_gram_
✨ Jesus and John Wayne — @kkdumez  ✨ Holy Hurt + The Wisdom of Your Body — @hillaryliannamcbride ✨ Waking the Tiger — @drpeteralevine  ✨ The Making of Biblical Womanhood — @bethallisonbarr ✨ Jesus Feminist — @sarahbessey ✨ All Fours — @mirandajuly ✨ No Bad Parts — @internalfamilysystems ✨ Mary Magdalene Revealed — @megganwatterson ✨ The Universal Christ — @cacradicalgrace ✨ When God Was a Woman — Merlin Stone ✨ Pure — @lindakayklein ✨ Hell Bent — @berecker

And eventually, all that questioning, unlearning, grieving, healing and coming home became my own book: Woman Embodied.
I wrote it for the woman who learned to leave herself in order to belong.
Your body was never the problem. You are allowed to want. You don’t have to abandon yourself to belong. Your body knows the way home.
What books changed you? Tell me below, I’m always adding to my list. 📖

#WomanEmbodied #ReligiousTrauma #PurityCulture #somatictherapy #booksthatchangedmylife

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