Beth Allison Barr describes her book, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry, as “the history of how
Download a PDF version of this article. The mid-1600s was a wild time in church history, much more than most people realize. With the changes
Download a PDF version of this article. In 1894, The Scottish Geographical Magazine published an article, “My experiences in Tibet,” by Annie Royale Taylor. The
One of the more subtle consequences of the Reformation is the way iconoclasm shaped our ability to recognize the metaphors of Scripture. Protestants in the
Exodus 2:1–10, often referred to as Moses’s birth narrative, initially caught my attention because of the number of women in the story. I wondered about
Each of the seventeen short chapters of Finding Hagar: God’s Pursuit of a Runaway by Michael Kuhn begins with an expressive drawing by his daughter Bethany
Exquisitely researched and thoroughly reasoned, Excavating Women: The Archaeology of Leaders in Early Christianity traces archaeological markers used to honor women leaders in pre- and
In June of 1771, John Wesley commissioned Sarah Crosby (1729-1804) as the first female lay preacher in the Methodist connection. He recognized something in Crosby
Scripture tells believers there will be persecution: “Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim 3:12
Mollie Gregory’s chronologically organized history of stuntwomen in the American movie industry (Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, 2015) makes a fascinating read. Did you know,