Books for Women by Women

Nancy R. Pearcey is professor of apologetics, scholar-in-residence, and the Elizabeth and John Gibson Endowed Chair in Apologetics at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey was hailed in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual,” and was featured on the cover of Christianity Today as one of America’s top five female apologists. She is the bestselling author of seven books (including two ECPA Gold Medallion Winners), and her books have been translated into 19 languages.

Alisa Childers is a singer and songwriter who writes at alisachilders.com, an apologetics blog for doubting Christians and honest skeptics. Her eponymous podcast discusses challenging issues facing Christianity today, such as popular misconceptions about the faith and deceptive ideas that lead people astray. She features prominently in the documentary American Gospel: Christ Crucified.

Nancy Wilson has been a pastor's wife and homemaker in Moscow, Idaho, for more than thirty years. She is the author of a number of books including Building Her House, The Fruit of Her Hands, and Praise Her in the Gates, and a regular contributor to feminagirls.com. She and her husband Douglas have three children and seventeen grandchildren, which makes for some crazy Sabbath dinners.

Natasha Crain is a national speaker, author of four books, blogger, and podcaster whose passion is to help Christians think more clearly about holding to a biblical worldview in the midst of an increasingly challenging secular culture. In addition to hosting her own podcast, The Natasha Crain Podcast, she co-hosts the weekly Unshaken Faith podcast with Alisa Childers.

Tara-Leigh Cobble is the founder of D-Group (Discipleship Group), an organization aimed at increasing biblical literacy among laypeople, which has grown to over 300 groups worldwide who meet weekly—online and in homes and churches—to dig deeper into books or topics from Scripture. She hosts a podcast called The Bible Recap, which aims to keep people connected to reading the Bible when they're tempted to quit for lack of understanding.