Editor’s Note: Profound Submission
Few things bring me more joy than seeing the gospel incarnated in the different cultures of our world. Each one has the potential to reveal something of
September 1, 2014
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Editor’s Note: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
In 1976, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich set out to uncover the history of ordinary, virtuous women in the colonial United States. In her article “Vertuous Women
September 1, 2014
President’s Message: Submissive or Strong Rescue?
Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find even one woman in the whole of Scripture who did what was right but did
September 1, 2014
Short Answers to Tough Questions: How are Christians to understand the imagery of Israel as God’s unfaithful wife, and what is the relevance of the divine-human marriage metaphor in our lives today?
Q: An ever-present “woman” in the Old Testament is Israel, God’s metaphorical wife. How are Christians to understand the imagery of Israel as God’s unfaithful
September 1, 2014
Skirts, Spatulas, & Surrender
I was sixteen years old, confused, and tired. I had a thousand little journals with themes like “becoming a woman of God,” “finding your calling,”
September 1, 2014
Womb Currency
A womb, the currency of the day. Trade. Hagar’s womb: tilled soil. Gentile, slave, used and thrown away. Have you heard? God sees! From dry
September 1, 2014
Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter
Women of the Bible have been trapped in dry and dusty literary caskets for centuries. While a few women, such as Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary
September 1, 2014
In the Midst of the Mess: Hagar and the God Who Sees
Along a desert road, beside a remote, unnamed well, the angel of the Lord approaches a pregnant, abused, runaway slave named Hagar. The young woman
August 31, 2014
Proverbs 31 Man
Maybe the biblical character you best connect with is Daniel in the lion’s den, or Mary when the stone was rolled away. Sometimes we connect
August 31, 2014
The Shame of the Unnamed Women of the Old Testament
Jephthah’s daughter, Manoah’s wife, King Lemuel’s mother—the Old Testament is full of women whose names are withheld. They are typically identified only by their relationship
August 31, 2014