You were created to lead and your calling is unmistakable. You know how hard it is to live out your calling and tackle the difficult challenges unique to women who lead in the church. Nancy Beach understands what it's like. In this practical and inspiring book, she shares the challenges and joys of her own thirty-year journey as a leader and teacher in the church. She offers guidance on such issues as: earning respect, finding your unique voice for leadership and teaching, managing work and personal life, forming an intentional support network, and more. Rich in wisdom and humor, Nancy's message offers heartfelt encouragement that you are not alone, your gifts are not a mistake, and that God has exceedingly important work for you to do.

Gain a fresh and different perspective on the subject of women in vocational ministry! John Phelan eschews tired old arguments in favor of a unique approach: he engages readers with a trenchant examination of the biblical themes of liberation and redemption, especially in the ministries of Isaiah and Jesus. He compellingly traces the trajectory of these themes and leads readers to the unequivocal conclusion that in the new kingdom that Jesus promised, all God's people are priests, all Gods people are holy, and all God's people have the Spirit. All God's People contributes substantially to the discussion of women in pastoral ministry and Phelans unique approach is a breath of fresh air.

Written in an engagingly clear and irenic style, the Called and Gifted Study Guide may easily be the most concise overview available today on the subject of women's roles in the church.

Created specifically to help facilitate group discussions, the nine sessions move participants through a systematic study of the various positions on this important subject in an even-handed way, while still being clearly egalitarian. Simple, readable, yet thorough, it provides a first look at the issues involved, and provokes readers to rethink issues they may have thought were settled.

Whether you are contemplating individual or group study of this subject, the Called and Gifted Study Guide is an ideal starting point for those who want to study the subject but don't know where to begin.

One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be 'feminine.' Sayers did not devote a great deal of time to talking or writing about feminism, but she did explicitly address the issue of women's role in society in the two classic essays collected here.

Central to Sayers's reflections is the conviction that both men and women are first of all human beings and must be regarded as essentially much more alike than different. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both men and women, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it.

Though written several decades ago, these essays still offer in Sayers's piquant style a sensible and conciliatory approach to ongoing gender issues.