Throughout history, women have been crucial to the growth and flourishing of the church. Historian Michael Haykin highlights eight of these women who changed the course of history, showing how they lived out their callings despite challenges and opposition - inspiring modern men and women to imitate their godly examples today.
These women are:
- Jane Grey - the courageous Protestant martyr who held fast to her conviction that salvation is by faith alone even to the point of death
- Anne Steele - the great hymn writer whose work continues to help the church worship in song today
- Margaret Baxter - the faithful wife to pastor Richard Baxter who met persecution with grace and joy
- Esther Edwards Burr - the daughter of Jonathan Edwards whose life modelled biblical friendship
- Anne Dutton - the innovative author whose theological works left a significant literary legacy
- Ann Judson - the wife of Adoniram Judson and pioneer missionary in the American evangelical missions movement
- Sarah Edwards - the wife of Jonathan Edwards and model of sincere delight in Christ
- Jane Austen - the novelist with a deep and sincere Christian faith that she expressed in her stories
Eight Women of Faith is in the following collections: