On an ordinary evening in 2010, I sat in my pajamas in front of a muted television reading the blog of then 19-year-old Katie Davis. Every word of her story captured me. How and why would a young, privileged homecoming queen from Nashville move to the middle of Uganda, adopt 13 children and start an organization that fed hundreds of starving children? I sent the link to my husband, a Christian literary agent, with a note, “You MUST read this and she MUST write a book.”
And she did write a book. “Kisses from Katie,” published in the fall of 2011 by Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, spent 35 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and has sold roughly 350,000 copies to date.
Not too long ago we lived in an era in Christian publishing where a woman like Katie Davis would have never had the opportunity to publish a book.
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Today, however, women are making headway faster than ever. Between word-of-mouth marketing, the chatter of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and a female-dominated online retail space, Christian women are breaking through barriers. With online aggregate sites like Her.meneutics, (In)Courage,Sojourners, and Patheos, female Christian thought-leaders are conveniently and openly speaking into the wider Christian conversation on topics ranging from theology to doctrine to Church subculture — a privilege they did not have just decades ago.