cover image Unashamed: Drop the Baggage, Pick Up Your Freedom, Fulfill Your Destiny

Unashamed: Drop the Baggage, Pick Up Your Freedom, Fulfill Your Destiny

Christine Caine. Zondervan, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-310-34070-6

Caine, international speaker and cofounder of Propel Women, shares her history of being rejected, bullied, and sexually abused, and feeling that she was destined to never find a spiritual community because of her Greek heritage. She invites women from every walk of life to cast off past experiences that might have spawned an inner voice stuck within a cycle of shame and condemnation, and instead to invite Christ into their hearts. After years of abuse and spiritual neglect, Caine considers the moment at rock bottom when she felt helpless and hopeless about her life prospects before describing the levity that came from studying the Bible and discovering the welcoming love of God. Overcoming her calcified need for acceptance, she was able to reconfigure her hopeless mindset with the knowledge that God had already accepted her. Today, Caine speaks to tens of thousands of women around the world to share the gospel and guide hurting souls toward a path of healing from the inside out. Powerful and direct, her voice of advocacy shines through in every story. This book is both a dynamic confession and motivational guide for women striving to live free from past shame. (May)