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Challenging Gender Norms: The Masculine Power of Proverbs 31's Woman of Valor
By: Jessica L.M. Jenkins | March 27, 2025
Jessica Jenkins dives into the Hebrew poetry and historical context of Proverbs 31, showing that God loves women who are strong, assertive, and bold. God reveals an image of womanhood that looked little like the cultural femininity of her childhood.
Book Review: The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood: How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality
By: Kate Netzler Burch | April 6, 2023
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood is a thorough, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to prominent Bible passages that are often used to limit women. Philip B. Payne builds upon and summarizes a lifetime of research to show God’s word consistently affirms the equality of women and men.
Who First Told the Bible’s Stories and Why It Matters
By: Jeff Miller | May 13, 2020
Oral tradition is important for an egalitarian understanding of the Bible—its origins, development, nature, and relevance—because women were among the key players in this stage of the Bible’s development.
Finding “The Proverbs 31 Woman”
By: Hannah Rasmussen | April 30, 2018
Digging deeper into Prov 31:10–31 in context reveals it was never intended to be a how-to manual for becoming the perfect woman. In the context of Proverbs, this passage is the parting mnemonic incentivizing young men to pursue wisdom and marry wisely.
Daughter Divine: Proverbs’ Woman of Wisdom
By: Glenn Pemberton | April 30, 2018
Over the past forty years, the remarkable presence of women in Prov 1–9 has drawn an equally remarkable number of studies, a gift from the rise of feminism and women in the academy. The combination of these two forces brings attention to the once invisible women in the text, figures generally overlooked or ignored as males [...]
Lessons From A Lone Woman Pastor
By: Sarah Ago | July 24, 2017
A great leader practices holistic, radical, other-oriented love and service. In asking the church to empower women as pastors and spiritual leaders, we are asking it to activate women to fully and freely love, lead, and serve.
There's No Such Thing As A "Woman of God"
By: Khristi L. Adams | May 13, 2015
When I say "no such thing," what I'm referring to is the concept of this image. There is no such thing as a "woman of God," or at least, the one we've created in our minds and admired at our churches. We have authored an unattainable image of near-perfection.
Proverbs 31 Man
By: Daniel Fan | June 5, 2013
It was not by choice, but by calling, that I found myself a Proverbs 31 man.
The Proverbs 31 Woman
By: Francine Erre | March 5, 2008
How many times have you gone to a women’s Bible study on Proverbs 31? It seems that discussions on this passage usually turn to how to be a good wife, mother, and house cleaner.
Diamond or Diamond Mine? A Meditation on Proverbs 31
By: William David Spencer | April 30, 2002
So important are women in the Bible that Proverbs, the Book of God’s wisdom, ends with a celebration of what a faithful reverent woman should look like: Proverbs 31:1-31.