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Editor's Reflection: Spring 2025
By: Havilah Dharamraj | May 1, 2025
This issue of Priscilla Papers highlights the courageous stories of women who boldly pursued extraordinary callings. Their work, often considered radical or unconventional, invites us to reflect more deeply on the transformative role of women in advancing God's Kingdom.
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
By: Michaela Rollins | May 1, 2025
Michaela Rollins introduces us to the “prison diary” of Perpetua and Felicitas, who, in the early third century, fearlessly embraced the calling to be martyrs for their new faith in Jesus.
The Extraordinary History of the Extraordinary Call
By: Joan Brown | May 1, 2025
Joan Brown traces the chronology of the “extraordinary call,” the condition under which women could be permitted to preach in exception to what was understood as the Pauline rule that women “ought not to teach” (1 Tim 2:12).
Women’s Work: Vocation in Exodus 2:1–10
By: Jennifer M. Gash | May 1, 2025
Jenn Gash studies how the group of women who played a saving role in the infancy narrative of Moses ended up subverting the rule of Pharaoh.
Re-Oranting the Church: Metaphor and the Erasure of Image-Bearing
By: Daniel Schwabauer | May 1, 2025
Daniel Schwabauer reads the injunction that women cover their heads (1 Cor 11:3-5) in the light of the orant, the males and females in the early centuries of the Church who stood before a congregation to offer up prayer.
Annie Royale Taylor (1855–1922): A Missionary Adventurer in Tibet
By: Ian Randall | May 1, 2025
Ian Randall tells the story of Annie Royale Taylor (1855-1922), a missionary adventurer who dared the icy perils of Tibet.
More Than a Woman: Anne Hutchinson’s Testimony for the Holy Spirit
By: Patrick Oden | May 1, 2025
Patrick Oden unpacks the court trial Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) who with extraordinary courage stood her ground on her insight into pneumatology.
Book Review: Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry
By: Alexander Kwasi Oduro | May 1, 2025
This book is a valuable, balanced, and thoughtful treasure for embracing the gifting and talents of the wives of pastors and of Christian women in general for the furtherance of the church around the world, now and in the future.
Collide-a-Scope
By: Elizabeth Ruth Jewson | May 1, 2025
Elizabeth Jewson shares how grief, love, and faith collide to create clarity of call in this week's blog post.
Book Review: Finding Hagar: God's Pursuit of a Runaway
By: Elizabeth Ann R. Willett | April 29, 2025
Finding Hagar is a good corrective read for biblical scholars as well as for Christians with negative attitudes toward Hagar, Ishmael, and Arab peoples, and it provides encouragement for any who feel unnoticed in a subservient position