Becoming Women of the Word: How to Answer God's Call with Purpose and Joy

by Sarah Christmyer

Book Overview

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (third place, scripture-popular studies).

The women God called to bring his chosen people into the world were ordinary women who struggled with emptiness, oppression, infertility, and loss--yet who found strength and hope in God. In her first book, Sarah Christmyer--codeveloper of The Great Adventure Catholic Bible study program--pairs the stories of key Old Testament...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594718776
• ISBN13: 9781594718779
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Sarah Christmyer wrote this book with such detail and familiarity that I actually stopped and fact-checked several times, stunned. I facilitate quarterly retreats for our St. Anne's Sodality, using a book as a guide for our discussion and reflection. This June, we used this one, and everyone came away the richer for it. It prompted me to reach out to the author to thank her for sharing her heritage of faith with us...and reminding us that it's ours too!