Hildegard’s Green Grace
If Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) were cut, she might just bleed green, so deep was her love for the color and all it symbolized. As
August 5, 2026
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Nola, Tony, and Merrilyn: A Trio of New Zealand Women Leaders
Three nurturing women with remarkably different positions and talents feature in my latest book, They Carved a Wider Path for Women: 36 New Zealand Baptist
August 5, 2026
Herodias, Her Daughter, and Herod in Mark 6 in Light of the Parable of the Soils: A Literary and Gender Analysis
Introduction1 Mark stages his account of Herodias and her daughter at a public birthday celebration for Herod Antipas. Most scholarly works on Mark discuss the
August 5, 2026
Eva Stuart Watt (1891–1959): Irish Initiatives in Africa
Eva Stuart Watt, from an Irish family, grew up in Kenya until age ten, before going to boarding school in England. This article looks at
August 5, 2026
“Consider Others as More Important than Yourselves:” Is Philippians 2:3–11 for Everyone or Just for Women?
“By nature we yearn and hunger for honor, and once we have glimpsed it, as it were, some part of its radiance, there is nothing
August 5, 2026
Editor’s Reflection: Summer 2026
Of the poems in my middle school reader, one that I remember well is Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees” (1886–1918). Here it is— I think that I
August 3, 2026
Was Christianity Good for Women? The Lives of Thecla, Perpetua, Felicitas, and Macrina Against Greco-Roman Expectations
Female Christians in the Greco-Roman world of the first through fourth centuries found themselves threatened from both inside and outside the community of faith. As
April 24, 2026
Her Story: Anne Boleyn the Reformer
Anne Boleyn (ca. 1501–1536), the second wife of King Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), is often either demonized as a temptress, homewrecker, and adulteress, or
April 24, 2026
The Complementarian Imagination: Race, Gender, Exclusion, and Dominion
Download a PDF version of this article. “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”1 Shakespeare illuminates our lived experience
April 23, 2026
Fertility, Futility, and Filth: Menstruation Imagery in Isaiah 64:6
“All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a
April 23, 2026