Released on August 5, 2025, the award-winning devotional Bible pairs The Message® translation with insightful content written by women for women.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (November 17, 2025) — This fall, after a careful editorial and production process spanning nearly five years, NavPress (a business ministry of The Navigators) celebrated the release of The Message Women’s Devotional Bible.
Featuring 320 topical devotions, 52 biblical character profiles, and other supplemental content written by women for women, this expansive project pairs Eugene H. Peterson’s award-winning translation of the Bible with insights from more than 80 contributors of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, vocations, and Christian denominations. The devotional Bible has been recognized for outstanding design, as well: It received a Top Shelf Book Cover Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) at this year’s Publishing University on October 31.
“The features in this Bible are what rose to the surface when our team asked, What do women really need in a devotional Bible?” shares Olivia Eldredge, editor of The Message® Bible. “Women need to hear from other women: diverse, trustworthy, thoughtful voices who can speak to how the Bible intersects with the lives of women. And they need to have space to bring their questions, their vulnerability, their honest wrestling — and be met by God.”
While Christian content marketed specifically to women can tend toward superficiality and stereotypes, The Message Women’s Devotional Bible pursues nuance, sensitivity, and authenticity while remaining faithful to the biblical texts. Throughout, it invites women to engage deeply with difficult or overlooked passages, offering candid reflections on the truth that women — though often unnamed in Scripture — are indeed active, vital participants in God’s story, both in the biblical narrative and today.
The Message is a contemporary translation of the Bible, created by Eugene H. Peterson and thoroughly reviewed by a team of Old and New Testament scholars to ensure accuracy and fidelity to the original biblical languages. A pastor, theologian, scholar, writer, and poet, Peterson worked directly from the Greek and Hebrew texts to craft a faithful rendering of Scripture in accessible, everyday language. It took him a full decade to complete his translation work.
Learn more about The Message Women’s Devotional Bible and other NavPress resources by visiting NavPress.com.
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November 5, 2025
Contact: Chris Muller, Senior Vice President, Ministry Engagement, (719) 594-2269, chris.muller@navigators.org
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