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A Prayer for Women: Remember Your Daughters
By: Rachel Asproth | June 5, 2017
God of Hagar, Tamar, and Mary Magdalene | Of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel
Apple Picking Theology: The Intersectionality of Jesus
By: Karen González | June 5, 2017
When our egalitarian theology is intersectional, we can be confident that our whole identities matter to the God who formed and chose us. No form of oppression should escape the scrutiny of the gospel.
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women
By: Woodrow E. Walton | May 15, 2017
Band of Angels is a well-researched narrative history of the women around Jesus and within the rapidly growing Christian community in its first five centuries.
Dismantling Socio-Sacred Hierarchy: Gender and Gentiles in Luke-Acts
By: Moyra Dale | April 30, 2017
Without question, women are more prominent in Luke’s writings than in any of the other three Gospel writers. The interpretation of their presence, however, is contested. In recent years, significant attention has been given to the role the women play in the narratives of Luke and Acts. The silence of their voices after the [...]
Ave Maria: Old Testament Allusions in the Magnificat
By: Amy Smith Carman | April 30, 2017
Luke 1:46–55 is both a beautiful hymn sung to glorify God and an interpretive puzzle. This text, widely known as the Magnificat, is one of several songs Luke uses at a crucial moment in the birth narratives in order for characters to explain the amazing ways in which God is moving. Luke includes it in his [...]
Was Apphia an Early Christian Leader?
By: Nicholas Quient | April 30, 2017
The epistle to Philemon begins, “Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker” (NRSV). Paul and Timothy then also address “Apphia the sister” (Apphia tē adelphē). Throughout the multitude of commentaries on Philemon, one struggles to find a helpful description of this mysterious woman. The [...]
Simon’s Mother-in-Law as a Minor Character in the Gospel of Mark
By: David E. Malick | April 30, 2017
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway, known for his concise language, once won a wager that he could tell a story in just six words. He then wrote on a napkin: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” Whenever I share this story, invariably the audience fills in the gaps by positing a backstory which includes [...]
Editor's Reflections | Spring 2017 (31.2)
By: Jeff Miller | April 30, 2017
Genesis 29:25 is one of the Bible’s more startling verses: “When morning came, there was Leah!” (NIV). Have you ever wondered how Jacob could not know—for the better part of a day and all of a night—that he had married Leah instead of Rachel? Surely several factors were at work, and just as [...]
Present and Accounted For: Women in the New Testament
By: Jeff Miller | February 2, 2017
New Testament authors assume that women are in their audience. In Philippians 4:2, for example, Paul says, “I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to come to an agreement in the Lord” (CEB). Reading this verse in its context makes it clear that Paul assumes Euodia and Syntyche will be present when his letter is read [...]
The Unnamed Woman With the Alabaster Jar
By: Crystal Lutton | January 10, 2017
How do we get from sinner to whore in our perception of Bible women? (Note: this offensive term is used only to highlight the false dichotomy applied to Bible women, not to imply that any women should bear this label).