Drawing from two prayers from the Book of Luke, the author explores the powerful relationship between a young pregnant Virgin Mary and her older pregnant cousin Elizabeth, detailing a poignant story of how two women, a mentor and protTgT, used their special gifts and energies to support each other, and discussing how mentoring among women can play such an important role in society today. 30,000 first printing.

Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God

Religion & Spirituality

Weems, Renita J.

Worship & Devotion

Walk Worthy Press

Using the work of Scripture as inspiration, Weems offers 10 lessons that teach women how to discover what their passions are, and how to create direction and meaning in their lives. Helps readers to understand that passion is not something awakened by other people, but an inner source of energy that flows out of every aspect of one's being. In doing so, Weems empowers women to fight against stereotypes and ignore the conventional way of doing things in order to find their own happiness and joy.

What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

The "Essence" bestselling author of "Listening for God" reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sisters--and how to live a better life because of it.

Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Just a Sister Away: A Womanists Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible

Christian Books & Bibles

Reverend Renita J. Weems draws upon two prayers from the Book of Luke, examining the relationship between Mary and her older cousin to reveal the important effect mentoring has on the lives of women. The story of a young pregnant Virgin Mary visiting her older pregnant cousin Elizabeth, told in Luke 1:39-56, is one of the most profound examples in the Bible of an empowered mentoring relationship between women. Drawing upon the Hail Mary and The Magnificat 9rayers, SHOWING MARY retells this touching story, revealing how both mentor and protg use their respective gifts and energies to support ach other. This relationship is then applied to modern life, emphasizing the importance of women mentoring women, nurturing each others dreams, sharing wisdom and experiences, and building networks of mutually rewarding friendships between older and younger women.

The Grammy Award-winning gospel singer shares a joyous message of hope, love, and inspiration in a memoir that describes her life, her marriage, her rise to success, her friendship with Whitney Houston, and her faith in God. 50,000 first printing.

On a Positive Note

Biographies & Memoirs

Winans, CeCe

Community & Culture

Atria

A respected black woman preacher offers a stirring chronicle of her personal crisis of faith, giving prayers and meditations that can restore spiritual belief and showing how faith has a clear place in the day-to-day world. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

LISTENING FOR GOD: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt

Simon&Schuster

Throughout the past two decades, Renita J. Weems has been noted and praised for her writing, galvanizing national speaking, and pioneering scholarship in the field of Old Testament studies. Yet in the midst of her celebrated work, she was experiencing a profound spiritual crisis permeated by a hollow, painful silence that seemed, at times, to mark an irreparable rupture in her communication with God. In this deeply affecting book, Weems addresses the believer's yearning for God through periods of inconstancy, vacillation, and disenchantment. Her own spiritual disquietude will be familiar to all who struggle to maintain faith while the details of daily life - negotiating with children and spouses, caring for ailing parents, living up to professional expectations, developing hobbies, managing finances, and planning for the future - compete for energy with one's relationship with God. In sharing her own strategies for redefining mundane rituals so that they contribute to reverence and devotion, Weems offers a beacon of light for all believers struggling to listen for God amidst the din of worldly demands and distractions.

Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt

Touchstone

Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant between Yahweh and Israel?" This provocative work by a leading African American biblical scholar delves deeply into issues of intimacy and power, violence and control, seduction and betrayal, and is a searing indictment of the axial points of Israelite religion-its covenantal and prophetic traditions-and their authority today.

Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Fortress Press

Designed to assist those who use the Revised Common Lectionary, the Roman Catholic lectionary, and the Episcopal lectionary, this reader-friendly workbook features introductions to the liturgical seasons with an eye toward preaching; includes brief exegesis of the lessons and homiletical reflections on their themes; has references to culture, media, and contemporary events with practical suggestions for incorporating these into sermons; and provides prayers, quotations, and meditations that address the preacher spiritually.

New Proclamation Year C, 2000-2001: Advent Through Holy Week

Balentine, Samuel E.

Stendahl, John

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Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God

What Matters Most: Ten Lessons in Living Passionately from the Song of Solomon

Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible

Just a Sister Away: A Womanists Vision of Women's Relationships in the Bible

Showing Mary: How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God

On a Positive Note

LISTENING FOR GOD: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt

Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt

Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

New Proclamation Year C, 2000-2001: Advent Through Holy Week