These quotations offer a way to rise up from grief and ease the burden.

Bearing Our Sorrows: Christian Reflections for Courage, Hope, and Healing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ashcroft, Mary Ellen

Elliott, Holly Bridges

Psychology & Counseling

Harpercollins

Jesus touched the lives of many women with compassion, love, and forgiveness. However, the story of the women who followed Jesus goes almost unnoticed in the gospels. The Magdalene Gospel shatters the centuries of silence imposed on these women. Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Jesus, and others devoted their lives to Jesus; they gave up everything for him, because he had given them everything. As Jesus gave his life for them, these women shared his pain at the foot of the cross, and risked their lives by caring for his crucified body. In the dark nights and gloomy days between Jesus' death and his resurrection, Mary Magdalene and the other women tried to make sense of their Lord's tragic end. This is their story. The Magdalene Gospel tells the very personal, moving stories of how Jesus changed people's lives. Stricken with the unspeakable pain of losing Jesus, Mary Magdalene and her friends grieve, cry, and care for one another. They emerge from this dark hour by caring for others, as Jesus had cared for them. Weakly, but then with increasing strength, they give voice to the depth of their love of Jesus and their reasons for following him. In sharing their stories, Mary Magdalene and her sister mourners begin to shed the burden of grief. No other book allows women disciples to tell their own stories. This fresh perspective, presented in a captivatingly personal, yet very accessible style, enlivens the well-known story of Jesus. The Magdalene Gospel is good news for everyone.

The Magdalene Gospel

Literature & Fiction

DOUBLEDAY

Combining biblical scholarship, midrash, and an imaginative, fictional approach, Mary Ellen Ashcroft takes a new look at seven biblical women: Mary Magdalene, Maria, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Joanna, The Samaritan Woman, and Martha. In this book Ashcroft views these women in light of Christ's resurrection. What might they have thought, felt, and done, once they knew that Jesus had been raised? How did they influence-even help build-the early Christian movement? Ashcroft maintains that these women have become "lost" in history; that their true identities have been obscured. By seeing them afresh, we can gain insights for our own discipleship. Ashcroft says, "Mentors and foremothers of the faith, have you been lost, or have we? You have sat, watching these many years, waiting to welcome us. Perhaps it is in finding you that we find our place in the faith." Spirited Women includes spiritual exercises for meditation, reflection, prayer, and discussion.

Spirited Women: Encountering the First Women Believers

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Fortress Press

A portrait of the Saturday after the crucifixion and before the resurrection of Jesus. Mary Magdalene and the other women followers of Jesus have gathered together to comfort one another. As each woman shares her story, it becomes clear that her experience as a follower of Jesus has changed her life forever.

The Magdalene Gospel: Meeting the Women Who Followed Jesus

Tentaciones Que Enfrentan Las Mujeres/Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Life Pubns Intl

"Why am I so consumed with what's trivial instead of what's really important?""When I feel like a failure, I look at somebody else and get so envious.""I know why I accumulate nice things and even nice people--to prove that I'm worth something." Mary Ellen Ashcroft knows firsthand about these thoughts and feelings. In this book she writes about where the needs and motivations of women come from, what temptations hook into these needs and how women can get beyond them. As women, she says, we can find ourselves tempted to 
<ul>
<li>fill our lives with things</li>
<li>let our anger consume us</li>
<li>focus on food or dieting</li>
<li>believe distortions about sex</li>
<li>get stuck in our dissatisfaction</li>
</ul> Ashcroft maintains that we should look honestly at our temptations and ask what they tell us about ourselves. She believes that God's intention is not simply that we avoid, resist or flee temptation, but that we use it to fire our spiritual growth in areas of life we have neglected. Temptations Women Face shows the way through each temptation and helps us day by day to build a life pleasing to God.

Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride

"Why am I so consumed with what's trivial instead of what's really important?" "When I feel like a failure, I look at somebody else and get so envious." "I know why I accumulate nice things and even nice people--to prove that I'm worth something." Mary Ellen Ashcroft knows firsthand about these thoughts and feelings. In this book she writes about where the needs and motivations of women come from, what temptations hook into these needs and how women can get beyond them. As women, she says, we can find ourselves tempted to 
<ul>
<li>fill our lives with things</li> <li>let our anger consume us</li> <li>focus on food or dieting</li> <li>believe distortions about sex</li> <li>get stuck in our dissatisfaction</li> </ul> Ashcroft maintains that we should look honestly at our temptations and ask what they tell us about ourselves. She believes that God's intention is not simply that we avoid, resist or flee temptation, but that we use it to fire our spiritual growth in areas of life we have neglected. Temptations Women Face shows the way through each temptation and helps us day by day to build a life pleasing to God.

Intervarsity Pr

These are wild and confusing times for women. While the church and society continue to debate the proper "role" of women, many are tossed between work and family, pushed to balance all sorts of competing demands. Yet, says insightful author Mary Ellen Ashcroft, women have long known how to devote their attention to many things at once. "Like the woman quilting from old scraps of clothing, women know how to improvise. They often take the less-than-perfect materials that they are handed and make something beautiful." So rather than rehearse tired and frustrating debates, Balancing Act refreshingly explores issues of calling and identity. It shows how once a woman understands what God has called her to and who she is, difficult struggles of work and family sort themselves out.

Balancing Act: How Women Can Lose Their Roles & Find Their Callings

Religious Studies

Dogspell: The Gospel According to Dog

This playful yet substantial "dogmatic" book of theology addresses our central human longing to be deeply loved. This is also an incarnational theology, putting us in contact with a God who is willing to roll in the earth with us, dive in to rescue us, and whose tracks can be seen throughout our homes and lives. Illustrated with lovely charcoal drawings, Dogspell challenges readers to believe that God loves, welcomes, and longs to greet us as much as a dog.

Church Publishing

Dogspell: A Dogmatic Theology on the Abounding Love of God

Forest of Peace Books

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Bearing Our Sorrows: Christian Reflections for Courage, Hope, and Healing

The Magdalene Gospel

Spirited Women: Encountering the First Women Believers

The Magdalene Gospel: Meeting the Women Who Followed Jesus

Tentaciones Que Enfrentan Las Mujeres/Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride

Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride

Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride

Balancing Act: How Women Can Lose Their Roles & Find Their Callings

Dogspell: The Gospel According to Dog

Dogspell: A Dogmatic Theology on the Abounding Love of God