Women and the Aims of Jesus
By the time Jesus came into Galilee preaching and healing, the Israelites had been in exile over six hundred years. Jeremiah had promised that it
November 26, 2014
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Recognition, Rewards, and Renewal in the Book of Ruth
God has given me a vision for the kind of things he wants to do in the lives of his people, specifically in the lives
November 26, 2014
Hollyhock
Those summer days we pinched off the blooms to make ballerinas, bud for the head, sticky stamen under the silky skirts, and then the whirling.
November 26, 2014
Editor’s Reflections | Spring 2004
In a world filled with grocery stores, pollution, birth-control, and debates about the definition of marriage, it is challenging to apply God’s mandate to humanity:
November 26, 2014
Does Belief in Women’s Equality Lead to an Acceptance of Homosexual Practice?
Editor’s note: all passages of scripture are quoted from the New English Bible unless otherwise noted. As Katharine Bushnell pointed out nearly a century ago,
November 26, 2014
What are the Biblical Roles of Female and Male Followers of Christ?
October 14, 2003, marked the 30th anniversary of my ordination as a minister or teaching elder in the Presbyterian church. Before I was ordained, I
November 26, 2014
Fashionable
by J. Otis Powell Amnesia regarding social, cultural and political movements is fashionable, in part, because patriarchs would rather not acknowledge how the shape
November 26, 2014
Women and Slaves
Boundary markers are important to fundamentalists because they need enemies to energize their cause. In the so-called “conservative resurgence” currently seeking to divide Baptist loyalties,
November 25, 2014
Editor’s Reflections | Summer 2004
It has been said that if we do not remember our history we are doomed to repeat it, but in this issue of Priscilla Papers
November 21, 2014
Evidence for and Significance of Feminine God-Language from the Church Fathers to the Modern Era
Throughout history why did the church frequently use feminine language for God? In what way did this feminine language serve the church? Why do we
November 21, 2014