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Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement
By: Sally Bruyneel | April 30, 1998
After languishing in obscurity for many years, the work of Phoebe Palmer (1807-1874) has been rediscovered by church historians and scholars. Palmer was a widely-recognized religious figure in her day—a woman whose concern for the holy life enabled her to transcend the limitations of both gender and denominational affiliation.
North American Women Hymn Writers
By: Julia Ann Flora | July 31, 1997
In his book, Women Composers and Hymnists, Gene Claghorn lists 356 women hymn text writers who are North American. A few of the most outstanding are Julia Ward Howe (“Battle Hymn of the Republic”), Annie Sherwood Hawks (“I Need Thee Every Hour”), Mary Ann Thomson (“O Zion Haste”), Katherine Lee Bates (“America, the Beautiful”), Mary [...]
Betsey Stockton: Pioneer American Missionary
By: Eileen F. Moffitt | January 31, 1996
Born to a slave mother about 1798 in Princeton, New Jersey, Betsey Stockton was the first unmarried woman missionary ever sent by a North American mission agency beyond the borders of the United States. She went to the Sandwich Islands back in 1822, when James Monroe was president of this young Republic.
The Legacy of Katherine Bushnell: A Hermeneutic for Women of Faith
By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | October 31, 1995
The most prominent voice declaring the Bible as liberating of women was raised by Katherine Bushnell, a crusader against the forced prostitution of women, and also world evangelist for the WCTU’s Department of Social Purity. Insisting that the Bible fully upheld the rights and integrity of women, Bushnell stated that she and her followers [...]
Margaret Fell (1614-1702): A Brief Biography Of The Mother Of Quakerism
By: Sally Bruyneel | July 31, 1995
Margaret Fell, known to many as the “Mother of Quakerism,” is arguably one of the most fascinating figures in Western religious history. Though frequently overlooked by historians, Margaret Fell played a germinal role in the development of the Friends (Quaker) movement, and her life presents a compelling picture of the power of faith and the [...]
Jesus Calls Us
By: Julia Ann Flora | April 30, 1995
This is the centenary year marking the death on October 12 of Cecil Frances Alexander, one of the greatest women hymn writers. Her funeral in Londonderry attracted a great crowd from all of Great Britain to pay tribute to this noble woman.
The Legacy of Katharine Bushnell
By: Ruth Hoppin | January 31, 1995
How do we measure greatness? If by loftiness of purpose, we see Katherine Bushnell going to China as a medical missionary. We follow her across America and beyond its borders to several continents as she worked to reform conditions of human degradation. We read her closely reasoned exposition of Scripture as she tried to establish [...]
The Anchoress, Julian Of Norwich
By: Linda Marion Montgomery | July 31, 1994
An anchoress was a woman vowed to chastity and stability of abode. She was enclosed in an anchorhold for life. There was no release from her cell until death, on pain of excommunication. The object of her life was contemplation, the unceasing concentration upon God in prayer.
Women and Revival Work: Acts 2:17-21—Revival’s Magna Charta
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | July 31, 1994
In prayer this congregation asks for an out pouring of the Holy Spirit, but with an unspoken proviso, that God honor their gender bias: God may pour out His Spirit, but men alone may exhibit the Spirit’s empowering. Yet nothing seems further from the tenor of revival and the passage in Acts [...]
"A Wild Goose Chase" or Ella Sheppard & the Jubilee Singers
By: Jo Ellen Heil | July 31, 1994
Seven women. Four men. They called themselves The Jubilee Singers. One of America’s most astonishing successes, their music once rang out across the land. They changed the fabric of our culture by introducing spirituals to the American public for the first time. Yet their stories have been hushed.