Carolyn Mahaney (c. 1955 – N/A) was an American Bible teacher, author, and speaker whose ministry has focused on equipping Christian women with biblical wisdom for family life, rooted in her decades as a pastor’s wife. Born around 1955, likely in Maryland, she grew up in a Christian environment and met C.J. Mahaney in the 1970s while working as a secretary at a Christian conference center in Sarasota, Florida, where he was a guest speaker. Converted earlier in life, she married C.J. on May 17, 1975, at age 19, and together they co-founded Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 1977, where she supported his pastoral leadership for 27 years until 2004. Her teaching ministry emerged from this context, speaking to women at church events and conferences tied to Sovereign Grace Ministries. Mahaney’s preaching-like career blossomed through her authorship and speaking engagements, notably with books like Feminine Appeal (2003), Girl Talk (2005, co-authored with daughter Nicole Whitacre), and True Beauty (2014), which offer practical, scripture-based guidance on womanhood, marriage, and parenting. She began blogging at girltalkhome.com with her daughters, sharing devotionals that function as exhortative teachings, and has contributed articles to Desiring God, such as “Every Day’s a Bad Day” (2019), reflecting her ability to preach hope through Ecclesiastes. Mother to four children—three daughters (Nicole, Kristin, Janelle) and one son (Chad)—and grandmother to thirteen, she relocated with C.J. to Louisville, Kentucky, in 2012 to support Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville, continuing her ministry of teaching and writing into her later years.