Books
Saving Face
We have received the blessing from benedictions countless times, but what does it mean for the Lord to shine his face upon us? What’s in a face? What if the crises in the church today are not because we don’t have the right doctrine, but because we have lost our imagination and wonder? What if we have lost sight of the ultimate blessing to have God’s face shine upon us? What if we are spending all our time husting a curated face of what we think we are supposed to be and never really developing a real face? Never digging the truth out of ourselves about who we are—and missing the presence of Christ with his people.
Saving Face is a meditation on the divine face, and the meaning we get from the faces of others as we are trying to find our own. Deeply personal and contemplative, this book originated in a time of rising from disillusionment while still aching for a church…
The Hope in Our Scars
Some things happening in the church these days should provoke our anger. It’s racked with scandals of fraud, abuse, cover-up. It’s embroiled in racism, misogyny, marginalization, and hatred. The truth is that we have to fight to love Christ’s church. Many of us are left wondering what kind of hope can the church offer if its leaders will not care for its wounds, admit their complicity, and move toward true reconciliation.
Having tread her own path of disillusionment, Aimee Byrd invites us to see Christ amidst the chaos…
The Sexual Reformation
What does it mean to be a woman or a man created in the image of God? Many Christians don’t have a good grasp of what their sexuality means. Many women in the church don’t feel like their contributions matter. Why is this?
The church is sadly still confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. While secular society talks about sexuality in terms of liberation, many in the church define manhood and womanhood in terms of reductive roles that rob us of the dignity of personhood, created in the image of God…
Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
This book dismantles every mistruth that you’ve heard about the role of women in the Bible, her place in the church, and the patriarchal lie of so-called “biblical manhood and womanhood.” In its place, Aimee Byrd details a truly biblical vision of women as equal partners in Christ’s church and kingdom.
The church is the school of Christ, commissioned to discipleship. The responsibility of every believer—men and women together—is being active and equal participants in and witnesses to the faith. And yet many women are trying to figure out what their place is in the church…
Why Can’t we Be Friends?
The conservative church has stood firm on many issues of sexuality―but capitulated in one key area by reducing men and women to little but their sexuality. This error threatens the New Testament picture of the church, damages our witness to the watching world, and introduces fear to our relationships as we treat each other primarily as threats to our purity, rather than as brother and sisters in Christ.
How did this happen?…
No Little Women
Why are so many well-intentioned women falling for poor―even false―theology? The Devil has been effectively targeting women from the beginning, so why are they often left to fend for themselves in so-called women’s ministries?
Strengthening women in the church strengthens the whole church…
Theological Fitness
Your spiritual life should be a battle!
The writer of Hebrews tells us to “hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering” (10:23 ESV). What (and whom) do we need to meet this challenge? How does simply “holding fast” turn into such a workout of faith?…
Housewife Theologian
This book is for women. For all women who want to explore beneath the superficial and get to know God, and themselves, better.
While striving to find meaning amid the mundane and ordinary, many women find themselves swallowed up by culture’s expectations, trying to escape the labels that trap and define them. But Aimee Byrd is determined to reclaim terms like housewife, which have divided many women, to unite them instead in their common calling…