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Reading the Bible in a year
2022-08-02T13:51:00+01:00By Alex Noel
Alex Noel challenged herself to read every part of the Bible – and found her life changed as a result
Five things I have learned about… reading the Bible
2022-06-01T15:34:00+01:00By Cathy Madavan
Cathy Madavan gives us some helpful advice on how to approach God’s word
The encounters three women had with Jesus in the Gospel of John
2026-06-30T07:44:00+01:00By Elaine Storkey
Elaine Storkey unpacks the encounters three women had with Jesus in the Gospel of John, highlighting their vital roles in revealing who Jesus was to those around them
Is Titus 2 meant as a blueprint for biblical womanhood?
2026-06-01T11:18:00+01:00By Elaine Storkey
Elaine Storkey unpacks the passage to show what it does – and doesn’t – mean
Bible Study: Be open to learning about God from your children
2026-04-28T10:02:00+01:00By Elaine Storkey
Elaine Storkey unpacks scripture to show us the ‘enormous value’ God places on young people
Living in an age of deception
2026-03-27T14:43:00+00:00By Hope Bonarcher
Hope Bonarcher is horrified by how deceived our culture is today, but a look at biblical examples shows this is nothing new

Book Club -The Stories We Carry By Robin W Pearson
2026-01-28T05:10:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: A Year to Slow Down: A Christian guide to embracing handmade & homegrown
2025-12-22T14:51:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year By Beth Moran
2025-11-26T05:47:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club Our Sisters: the fight for justice for Christian women forced into marriage in Pakistan
2025-10-22T15:08:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: The Marriage Monitoring Aunties' Association by Ola Awonubi
2025-09-23T06:45:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters: This month I’m reading… The Marriage Monitoring Aunties’ Association
Book Club: A Heavy Yoke - Theology, power and abuse in the Church By Selina Stone
2025-08-27T11:00:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Be Still: 30 devotions for those who feel anything but
2025-07-23T15:41:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Beloved is Where We Begin by Rachael Newham
2025-07-23T15:40:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: If the Ocean Has a Soul: A marine biologist’s pursuit of truth through the deep waters of faith and science
2025-06-26T11:08:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House
2025-05-28T12:01:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Comfort in the Ashes - Explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors by Michelle K. Keener
2025-04-30T08:21:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife - How marriage replaced ordination as a woman’s path to ministry by Beth Allison Barr
2025-03-26T13:12:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Unmaking Mary - Shattering the myth of perfect motherhood by Chine McDonald
2025-02-25T16:09:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
February Book Club: Metamorph - Transforming your life and leadership By Kate Coleman
2025-02-03T14:53:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
January Book Club: The autobiography of Britain’s first black woman bishop
2024-12-20T09:22:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
December Book Club - What does it mean to be human?
2024-11-25T17:14:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…A Crown that Lasts: You are not your label By Demi-Leigh Tebow
2024-10-23T10:09:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Book Club Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Being a Sanctuary By Pricelis Perreaux-Dominguez
2024-09-23T09:38:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
'Lead like the real you' this month's Book Club is on Amy Orr Ewings new book
2024-08-21T08:04:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club interview with author of ‘Tis Mercy All: The power of mercy in a polarised world
2024-07-24T10:42:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Wendy Grisham's books that kick up the dirt
2024-06-25T14:41:00+01:00By Jane Knoop
Wendy Grisham, deputy CEO of SPCK Publishing (and sister to author John Grisham), gives us insight into her progressive, radically inclusive faith, which fuels her passion for non-fiction books that bridge gaps and widen our conversations to reflect the expansiveness of God
‘Reading is a kind of magic’
2024-06-25T14:40:00+01:00By Jane Walters
Jane Walters is the chair of the Association of Christian Writers (ACW). Here she talks about her own journey of becoming a writer and why she feels Christian literature is so important
Book Club: Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The pain of marginalization and the path to belonging
2024-06-25T14:28:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
‘Nothing beats a real book’
2024-06-25T14:26:00+01:00By Veronica Zundel
Veronica Zundel waxes lyrical about the touch and smell of books, and reminds us of the treasure to be found in the ultimate library of books
Book Club - Does God See Me? How God meets us in the center of our trauma-healing journey
2024-05-28T11:17:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: Fully Alive - Tending to the soul in turbulent times
2024-04-22T11:16:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…She Speaks Fire: Battling shame, reigniting your faith, and claiming your purpose
2024-03-19T14:37:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Book club hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club interview with Lauren Windle
2024-02-26T09:24:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club: This month I’m reading…Of Love and Treason
2024-01-25T14:33:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club This month I’m reading… The Warsaw Sisters
2023-12-21T13:04:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
This month I’m reading… The Gifts of Christmas
2023-11-20T08:57:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
WA Book Club: This month I’m reading…The Bride by Joy Margetts
2023-10-24T08:17:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters. This month I’m reading…The Bride by Joy Margetts (Instant Apostle, 978-1912726752)
Book Club - Say Goodbye to Anxiety
2023-09-25T07:31:00+01:00By Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…
Book Club - Unashamed by Tracy Williamson
2023-08-31T12:31:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
Memorizing Scripture
2023-07-27T10:29:47.173+01:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by CLAIRE MUSTERS
This month I’m reading…The Body Revelation
2023-06-27T09:39:00+01:00By Claire Musters
July Woman Alive book club with Claire Musters.
June Woman Alive Book Club
2023-05-25T14:45:00+01:00By Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…
WA Book club: This month I'm reading... Transforming Love: How friendship with Jesus changes us by Amy Boucher Pye
2023-04-27T12:41:00+01:00By Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…
This month I’m reading…Cuckoo in the Nest by Fran Hill
2023-03-21T06:48:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Welcome to our monthly Woman Alive Bookclub where we review and discuss some amazing books. Bookclub is hosted by Claire Musters
WA Book club: All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
2023-02-27T12:16:54.82+00:00By Claire Musters
Book Club hosted by Claire Musters
Book Club with Bishop Jill Duff
2023-01-24T16:07:00+00:00By Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…
Book Club
2022-12-28T05:52:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters who interviews Hilary Taylor on her debut novel ’Sea Defences’
WA Bookclub: This month I’m reading…
2022-11-28T10:37:00+00:00By Claire Musters
Hosted by Claire Musters
New historical fiction from Woman Alive’s deputy editor!
2022-11-02T04:42:00+00:00By Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…
Book club
2022-09-27T08:37:00+01:00By Claire Musters
This month I’m reading…
WA Bookclub: This month I’m reading…
2022-08-31T10:40:00+01:00By Claire Musters
A Place at the Table: Faith, hope and hospitality by Miranda Harris and Jo Swinney
Publisher recommendation
2022-08-02T13:55:01.12+01:00
Ruth Leigh is an incredibly talented writer – and in Isabella M Smugge has created the picture-perfect character for our Instagram age
Shauna Niequist: The books that have changed my life
2022-08-02T13:55:00+01:00By Shauna Niequist
Life is in the Transitionsby Bruce Feiler
July Book Club
2022-07-04T13:57:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Before I turn to the book I have been reading, I want to begin by saying what a privilege it is to be hosting the book club.
Publisher recommendation
2022-07-04T13:57:00+01:00By Elizabeth Neep
Liturgies for Hope by Audrey Elledge and Elizabeth Moore
This month I’m reading…
2022-07-04T13:57:00+01:00By Claire Musters
Potiphar’s Wife by Mesu Andrews (Waterbrook Press, 978-0593193761)
Woman Alive Book Club
2022-06-01T15:34:00+01:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month I’m relinquishing…
May 2022 Book Club
2022-04-26T15:08:00+01:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
May 2022 Book Club - You recommend…
2022-04-26T15:07:00+01:00
This is a powerful testimony of the amazing journey of an ordinary woman set apart for such a time as this. Through the power of the Holy Spirit she has accomplished more than she ever hoped or imagined (a ministry that is still alive today), in one of the UK’s ...
April 2022 Book Club
2022-03-28T12:31:00+01:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
April 2022 Book Club - You recommend…
2022-03-28T12:30:00+01:00
Inspired by a recent book club post, I treated myself, with the luxury of a long weekend, to reading another of Sue Russell’s brilliant books, A Shed in a Cucumber Field (the title is in the Bible – who’d have thought it!). It’s been so good for the mind and ...
March 2022 Book Club - You recommend…
2022-02-22T09:34:00+00:00
For 2022, I’m re-reading this book of daily reflections. It seems perfect for me right now, as Simon Guillebaud seems to be speaking right into the issues I’m dealing with. I whizzed through the book last summer for the Woman Alive book bingo challenge, but now I’m reading it through ...
March 2022 Book Club
2022-02-22T09:34:00+00:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
February 2022 Book Club - You recommend…
2022-01-25T11:57:00+00:00
This book reminded me of the writings of Julian of Norwich, the anchorite nun who lived in Norwich. Keren’s writing is beautiful in the mystic tradition. Each thought is usually only a page or two so the book lends itself to being read when you don’t have a long time ...
February 2022 Book Club
2022-01-25T11:57:00+00:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
January 2022 Book Club - You recommend…
2021-12-17T11:22:00+00:00
I read this book while I was bringing up our kids. It really helped me to meet God daily on a deeper level through listening to him using ancient Christian practices like lectio divina. It also got me thinking practically about my role within our family and what I needed ...
January 2022 Book Club
2021-12-17T11:22:00+00:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
December Book Club
2021-11-25T11:03:24.607+00:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
December Book Club - Readers recommend…
2021-11-25T11:03:20.14+00:00
Richard Wurmbrand was imprisoned twice for being a Christian. This book is an education into human evil; how he suffered is staggering. It’s a series of sermons that he composed “on the verge of insanity”. Yet his answer to the inhumanity and his powerlessness is his belief in the promises ...
November Book Club - Readers recommend…
2021-10-22T15:08:00+01:00
I accepted this book from a neighbour, thinking: “Well, if it’s too heart-wrenching, I don’t have to read it.” And it wasn’t. Although it was desperately sad, the author didn’t dwell on the horrors. Heather Morris was asked to write Lale Sokolov’s story when he was an old man because ...
November Book Club
2021-10-22T15:08:00+01:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month Amy Boucher Pye is reading…
October Book Club - You recommend…
2021-10-01T11:10:00+01:00
Book reviews from Woman Alive readers
October Book Club
2021-10-01T10:55:00+01:00By Amy Boucher Pye
Amy Boucher Pye on what she is reading this month….
September Book Club - You recommend…
2021-08-24T09:48:00+01:00
Gamble is the visionary behind the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, a structure in the making dedicated to showcasing answered prayer as a testament to God’s goodness. While collating prayers for the wall, Gamble was struck by the importance and necessity of remembering God’s work in our lives. This gave ...
September Book Club
2021-08-24T09:48:00+01:00By Amy Boucher Pye
This month I’m reading…
Book Club birthday!
2021-08-11T14:06:00+01:00
To celebrate the Woman Alive Book Club’s 15th birthday, Claire Musters caught up with its founder Amy Boucher Pye
Woman Alive Book Club
2021-08-10T13:55:00+01:00By Claire Musters
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Book Club recommendation: Even the Sparrow: A Pilgrim’s Guide to Prayer, Trust and Following the Leader
2020-07-31T00:00:00+01:00
Even the Sparrow: A Pilgrim’s Guide to Prayer, Trust and Following the Leader
JILL WEBER
(Muddy Pearl, ISBN 978-1910012710) All Flame: Entering into the life of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit
ANDREW ARNDT
(NavPress, ISBN 9781641581516)
Book Club recommendation: Women in a Patriarchal World
2020-07-01T00:00:00+01:00
Women in a Patriarchal World
ELAINE STORKEY
(SPCK, ISBN 978-0281084074) NIV Bible Speaks Today
(IVP, ISBN 978-1783596133)
Book Club recommendation: The Healing Knife
2020-05-27T00:00:00+01:00
The Healing Knife
SL RUSSELL
(Lion, ISBN 978-1782643036) A Map of the Sky
CLAIRE WONG
(Lion, ISBN 978-1782642695)
Book Club recommendation: 12 principles for a courageous, resilient and fulfilling life
2020-04-27T00:00:00+01:00
Irrepressible: 12 principles for a courageous, resilient and fulfilling life
CATHY MADAVAN
(SPCK, ISBN 978-0281083374)
Book Club recommendation: More Than We Remember
2020-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
More Than We Remember
CHRISTINA SUZANN NELSON
(Bethany House, ISBN 9780764235382)
Book Club recommendation: Soul Journey
2020-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
Soul Journey
Margaret Silf (DLT, ISBN 978-0232534429)The Radical Reconciler
Chris Wright and John Stott (IVP, ISBN 978-1783599448)
Book Club recommendation: The Infographic Bible
2020-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
The Infographic Bible
Karen Sawrey (William Collins, ISBN 978–0007554614)The Passion Translation
Brian Simmonds (Authentic Media, ISBN 978–1424556878)
Book Club
2019-12-17T00:00:00+00:00
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things
Sarah Bessey (DLT, ISBN 978–0232534184)A Life of Listening
Leighton Ford (IVP, ISBN 978–0830845736)
Book Club
2019-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
Image of the Invisible
Amy Scott Robinson (BRF, ISBN 978-0857467898)
Book Club
2019-10-23T00:00:00+01:00
Luminaries: Twenty Lives that Illuminate the Christian Way
Rowan Williams (SPCK, ISBN 978–0281082957)Yours Truly: Parables and Stories
Murray Watts (SPCK, ISBN 978–0281080946)
Book Club
2019-10-01T00:00:00+01:00
We Need to Talk About Race – Ben Lindsay
SPCK - ISBN 978-0281080178Invited: The Power of Hospitality in an Age of Loneliness - Leslie Verner
Herald Press - ISBN 978-1513804330
Join our Book Club
2019-09-13T00:00:00+01:00
The Enlightenment of Bees
Rachel Linden (Thomas Nelson, ISBN 978–0785221401)Brunch at Bittersweet Café
Carla Laureano (Tyndale, ISBN 978–1496420282)
Join our Book Club
2019-08-02T00:00:00+01:00
Invitation to Retreat
Ruth Haley Barton
IVP
ISBN 978–0830846467
Join our Book Club
2019-07-16T00:00:00+01:00
How to Pray by Pete Greig (Hodder, ISBN 978–1529374926)
The Woman Alive Readers’ Choice Award 2019
2019-06-16T00:00:00+01:00
Join us as we choose our book of the year! Editor Jackie Harris explains what you need to do ...
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2019-06-04T00:00:00+01:00
Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack - Alia Joy
Baker
ISBN 978–0801093340
Join our Book Club
2019-05-14T00:00:00+01:00
This month I’m reading …
Becoming Mrs Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C S Lewis
Patti Callahan (Harper Inspire, ISBN 978–0310104803)
Join our Book Club
2019-04-23T00:00:00+01:00
Jesus said, ‘I am’ – Andrea Skevington (BRF, ISBN 978–0857465627)
Join our Book Club
2019-02-26T00:00:00+00:00
This month I’m reading …
The Resilient Disciple: A Lenten Journey from Adversity to Maturity, Justine Allain Chapman (SPCK, ISBN 978–0281078530)
The Way of Ignatius: A Prayer Journey through Lent, Gemma Simmonds (SPCK, ISBN 978–0281075317)
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2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
Once We Were Strangers, Shawn Smucker (Revell, ISBN 978–0800734763)
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2018-12-12T00:00:00+00:00
As Kingfishers Catch Fire – Eugene Peterson
(Hodder, ISBN 978–1473657212)
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2018-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
Love Came Down at Christmas Sinclair B Ferguson (Good Book Company, ISBN 978–1784982898)
Celtic Advent David Cole (BRF, ISBN 978–0857467447)
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2018-10-16T00:00:00+01:00
A Rumored Fortune – Joanna Davidson Politano (Revell, ISBN 978 0800728731)
Our book of the year
2018-10-11T00:00:00+01:00
The votes are in and we’re delighted to announce our winner of the 2018 Readers’ Choice Award
This month I'm reading ...
2018-09-11T00:00:00+01:00
Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson (Tyndale, ISBN 978–1496425805).
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2018-08-08T00:00:00+01:00
The Prayer Coin: Daring to Pray with Honest Abandon – Elisa Morgan (Discovery House, ISBN 978-1627078832)
This month I'm reading
2018-07-10T00:00:00+01:00
First Impressions: A Contemporary Retelling of Pride and Prejudice - Debra White Smith (Bethany House, ISBN 9780764230677)
This month I'm reading
2018-06-05T00:00:00+01:00
Everything Happens for A Reason - and Other Lies I've Loved - Kate Bowler (SPCK £9.99)
Help choose our book of the year!
2018-06-05T00:00:00+01:00
Jackie Harris explains how you can be involved in choosing the Woman Alive book of the year ...
This month I'm reading
2018-05-08T00:00:00+01:00
Grenfell Hope: Stories from the Community - Gaby Doherty (SPCK, ISBN 978-0281079629)
This month I'm reading
2018-04-04T00:00:00+01:00
Hear My Heart: What I Would Say to You – Billy Graham (Authentic Media, ISBN 978- 1780781174)
This month I'm reading
2018-03-07T00:00:00+00:00
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life Henri Nouwen (Hodder, ISBN 978-1473632127)
Essential Writings Jean Vanier (DLT, ISBN 978-0232527537)
This month I'm reading
2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
The Masterpiece – Francine Rivers (Tyndale, ISBN 978-1496407900)
The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck – Bethany Turner (Revell, ISBN 978-0800727666)
This month I’m reading …
2018-01-11T00:00:00+00:00
The Way of the Carmelites: A Prayer Journey Through Lent James McCaffrey, OCD (SPCK, ISBN 978-0281075294)Lenten Healing: 40 Days to Set You Free from Sin Ken Kniepmann (Ave Maria Press, ISBN 978-1594717956)
This month I'm reading
2017-12-12T00:00:00+00:00
The Way of Wisdom – Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller
(Hodder, ISBN 978-1473647558)
This month I'm reading
2017-11-08T00:00:00+00:00
In Touch With God – Michael Green & Rosemary Green (SPCK, ISBN 978-0281078127)
Keeping Advent & Christmas – Leigh Hatts (DLT, ISBN 978-0232533354)
This month I'm reading
2017-10-10T00:00:00+01:00
My Utmost for His Highest – Oswald Chambers (Discovery House, ISBN 978-1627077354)
Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers (Discovery House, ISBN 978-1627076791)
Catherine Campbell wins our Readers' Choice Award!
2017-09-18T00:00:00+01:00
We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Woman Alive Readers’ Choice Award is Chasing the Dawn by Catherine Campbell.
This month I'm reading
2017-09-07T00:00:00+01:00
A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation - Nick Page (Hodder, ISBN 978-1444749694)
Praying the Bible with Luther - Michael Parsons (The Bible Reading Fellowship, ISBN 978-0857465030)
This month I'm reading
2017-08-11T00:00:00+01:00
The Magnificent Story: Uncovering a Gospel of Beauty, Goodness & Truth
– James Bryan Smith
This month I'm reading
2017-07-18T00:00:00+01:00
The Captain's Daughter – Jennifer Delamere
The Sweet Smell of Magnolias and Memories – Celeste Fletcher McHale
2017 Readers’ Choice Award
2017-06-30T00:00:00+01:00
Voting has now closed for our special Readers’ Choice Award at this year’s Christian Resources Together (CRT) conference in September ...
This month I'm reading
2017-06-21T00:00:00+01:00
A Fragile Hope by Cynthia Ruchti
The Second Bride by Katharine Swartz
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2017-05-23T00:00:00+01:00
I'll Push You: A Journey of 500 miles, Two Best Friends and One Wheelchair
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2017-04-12T00:00:00+01:00
"At Home in the World" by Tsh Oxenreider
This month I'm reading
2017-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
"What Falls From the Sky" by Esther Emery
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2017-02-14T00:00:00+00:00
Find out what Amy is recommending us to read for March ...
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2017-01-31T00:00:00+00:00
Find out what Amy is recommending us to read for February ...
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2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
Find out what Amy is recommending for January ...