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Grace's Annual Women's History Month
Books 

​What Grace's People Are Reading for Woman's History Month
click here for the list in PDF

​​Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter by Episcopal priest Lindsay Hardin Freeman. 2nd expanded edition, 2023. Author suggests ways to use this book for group discussion as well as individual meditations.

What Jesus Learned from Women by James F. McGrath. 2021. Imaginative retellings of several Gospel women's stories.

Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne by Episcopal priest Wilda Gafney, 2017. Dr. Gafney is a ground-breaking scholar, translator, and storyteller.

A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year A by Wilda Gafney, 2021. &

A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year W: A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary, 2021.

Her Year B volume will be released later this summer.

Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.

Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson.

Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that they Don’t Want You to Know by Ebony Adams, et al

Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

The Wind at my Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from my Mentor, Raven Wilkinson by Misty Copeland

Diana Butler Bass’s blog at http://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Shameless: A Sexual Transformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Women’s Uncommon Prayers: Our Lives Revealed, Nurtured, Celebrated edited by Elizabeth Rankin Geitz

Women’s Inspirational Daily Prayer by Suzanne Haraburd