From Risk to Resilience

How Empowering Young Women Can Change Everything

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Pub Date 23 Jul 2019 | Archive Date 23 Jul 2019

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Description

Girls and women are transforming the world. Will the church support them?

Educating women is the most effective way to combat extreme poverty, slash child mortality rates, and build healthy communities. But first a girl must navigate the minefields of childhood and adolescence. Will she get pregnant or finish her education? Will she be trafficked or taught a trade? Will she be abused by authority figures or equipped for leadership?

From Risk to Resilience weaves the stories of young women between the ages of twelve and twenty-one into a tapestry of hope. Author and gender justice advocate Jenny Rae Armstrong illuminates dangers common to women and girls around the world: gender-based violence, child marriage, healthcare gaps, and damaging social attitudes. She also delves into narratives of women in Scripture, examining theologies of oppression that contain and crush women’s potential, and theologies of shalom that lift women up.

Drawing on resources from the gender justice movement and from heroines of the Bible, Armstrong offers a stirring call to action, with practical ways that churches and individuals can help girls around the globe thrive.

Girls and women are transforming the world. Will the church support them?

Educating women is the most effective way to combat extreme poverty, slash child mortality rates, and build healthy...


Advance Praise

“The most comprehensive book about the plight of women in the developing world I have read. . . . A clarion call to all who are followers of Jesus that what breaks his heart breaks ours. We will be part of the healing solution.”

—JO ANNE LYON, general superintendent emerita and ambassador of the Wesleyan Church

“Through brilliant biblical exegesis, Jenny Rae Armstrong issues a practical wake-up call to the whole church, which cannot thrive without the presence of healthy women. May this book begin to turn the tide!“

—LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, author of Crossing the Waters

From Risk to Resilience deepened my understanding and provided a biblical call to action. On the way, it better equipped me to invest in women of all ages and in all places, that they might flourish and fully express who God has created them to be.“

—WAYNE SCHMIDT, general superintendent, The Wesleyan Church

“Urgent reading for pastors and ministry leaders, parents and teachers, and anyone who longs to see God’s daughters flourish!“

—CAROLYN CUSTIS JAMES, author of Half the Church and Finding God in the Margins

“The most comprehensive book about the plight of women in the developing world I have read. . . . A clarion call to all who are followers of Jesus that what breaks his heart breaks ours. We will...


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