Mutuality | Blog + Magazine | Summer 2013
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Mutuality offers articles from diverse writers who share egalitarian theology and explore its intersection with everyday life.
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Summer 2013
Volume: 20 | Number: 2
Old Testament Women
This issue of Mutuality features some of the less prominent women of the Old Testament—women who might easily have been forgotten had God not preserved their stories in Scripture.
Contents
The observation that well-behaved women seldom make history isn’t just a statement of fact, but a call to action.
Women have always been righteous trouble-makers and indomitable agents of the Holy Spirit, thwarting injustice at just the right time.
Through my Western eyes, the nameless women once seemed unimportant—as if they were not valuable or had been overlooked. But the Old Testament authors realized that God engaged some women as individuals, and that the actions and words of these women were noteworthy and important—important enough to be included in Holy Scripture.
It was not by choice, but by calling, that I found myself a Proverbs 31 man.
Ultimately, Hagar’s story is more than the story of a slave and her son. It is a story of God’s care for those who have no earthly hope.
A womb, the currency of the day. Trade. Hagar’s womb: tilled soil. Gentile, slave, used and thrown away.
Hannah was a young woman with deep desires and a love for God. Like me, she was broken and weary. She cried out to God, deeply wounded by the fact that she could not live up to her community’s expectation for women: motherhood.
None of these women waited for men to take the initiative. Instead, they lived out their created purpose as strong rescuers.
