She believes that the Bible can be “reclaimed” as a spiritual resource for women. And in all fairness, she said, it must be pointed out that the Bible is sometimes not as patriarchal as ...
On two occasions in the Bible a woman opens an alabaster box of expensive perfume and pours upon Jesus her most prized earthly possession. The sweet aroma of her sacrifice penetrates the room, causes ...
While she was growing up in Fort Kent in the late 1980s, the local congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses was Shannon Simendinger's world. "When that's all you know, you get close to the people and they ...
Yes, man was created first, but also, man is born from women—neither would exist without the other, and ultimately, all of us come from God. This is the “complementary ... on man’s desire to maintain ...
Independent women in the Bible When I think about the independent woman, I think of all the women in the Bible and how they were all so independent and strong in their own way. The beauty about them ...
Questions about who wrote the Bible, when, and why have fascinated and perplexed scholars for centuries. These are the thorniest of questions, made all the more tangled by the Bible’s great age, and ...