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A Prayer for Women: Remember Your Daughters
By: Rachel Asproth | January 3, 2017
God of Hagar, Tamar, and Mary Magdalene | Of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel | God of Ruth, Esther, and Rahab | Of the Woman at the Well and the Woman They Would Have Stoned
Biblical Gender Equality: A Summary
By: Philip B. Payne | January 1, 2017
In every corner of the world, religious teachings on gender and power have an enormous impact on human lives, especially those of girls and women. For this reason, Christians have a responsibility to accurately critique biblical teachings on gender.
The Price of Being Mary
By: Susan Harrison | December 21, 2016
This year, I have noticed Mary more than usual. One of the things I’ve seen is a very strong person who bucks her culture to be what God calls her to be. That resistance has a hidden cost that the Bible doesn’t record directly.
What A Forgotten Passage About a Matriarch of Israel Tells Us About Advent
By: Alexis Waggoner | December 20, 2016
Two Christmases ago, I was six months pregnant. The season of Advent, a time of waiting and expectation, has never made more sense to me.
Book Review: Underdogs and Outsiders: Women of Advent
By: Scott Lencke | December 16, 2016
I recently finished a new book that hit the shelves a few weeks back. It’s entitled Underdogs and Outsiders, written by my good friend, Tom Fuerst. Though the main title may catch one off guard—noting it’s a study particularly written for the Advent season—it actually highlights the exact thrust of the [...]
How Advent Teaches Us to Find God In the Feminine
By: Rachel Asproth | December 12, 2016
For most of my life, I didn’t understand the significance of Advent. It paled next to Christmas. And I felt the same indifference for Advent that I had for every other church season.
Finding the Beginnings of Female Missionaries in the New Testament
By: Sarah Rodriguez | December 5, 2016
I was sitting in an anthropology class at my Christian college listening to the musings of the professor. She had been speaking about globalization, feminism, and Christianity when she suddenly posed the controversial question, should women be allowed to be missionaries? I was shocked by her question, because until that point, I had never doubted [...]
Samaritan Sinner, Celebrated Saint: The Story of the First Christian Missionary
By: Bronwen Speedie | December 5, 2016
Many Jewish rabbis of Jesus’ time would cross the street rather than walk near a woman, but Jesus crossed into unthinkable territory for this “divine appointment” with a Samaritan woman.
The Martha I Want to Be
By: Becky Castle Miller | December 5, 2016
Someone had to make Jesus dinner. Or at least that’s what Martha of Bethany thought, “distracted by all the preparations that had to be made” (Luke 10:40).
Seeing Women, Finding Equality
By: Tim Krueger | December 5, 2016
Where they aren’t erased, biblical women are often misrepresented. The Samaritan woman is remembered as a serial adulteress, when it’s just as likely her five marriages were the result of things beyond her control