- When
Life and Beliefs Collide: How Knowing God Makes a Difference
(Zondervan, 2001)
- Lost
Women of the Bible: The Women We Thought We Knew
(Zondervan, 2005)
- Understanding
Purpose (Nelson, 2006)
- The
Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
(Zondervan, 2008)
She is also
founder and president of the
Synergy
Women’s Network, Inc.—a national
organization for women emerging or engaged in vocational
ministry. The Synergy
Women’s Network and Gifted for Leadership
(affiliated with Christianity Today) co-sponsor
annual Synergy conferences.
Carolyn serves
as consulting editor for Zondervan's Exegetical
Commentary
Series on the New Testament;
a regular columnist for FullFill
Magazine; contributing editor
for Leadership Journal; and an advisory council member for Gifted for Leadership.
She speaks regularly at church conferences, colleges and other
Christian organizations both in the US and abroad and is a visiting
lecturer at various theological seminaries.
A pastor's
daughter, Carolyn grew up in Portland, Oregon. During the
years between seminary and her present ministries, she had her own
business as a computer software developer in Oxford, England. Her
husband Frank is Provost and Professor of Historical Theology at
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
They live in Boxford, Massachusetts. Their adult daughter Allison is an
artist and lives in Orlando, Florida.