While a few paragraphs in a single article cannot pay homage to the many women of God we read about in the holy scriptures, it's a wonderful starting place. Whether their mention is a handful of ...
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Author Mesu (pronounced mee-sue) Andrews combines storytelling with lessons from Scripture in her biblical fiction, which often portrays little-known female characters from the Bible. Now, the ECPA ...
Menopause is a God-designed transition that can become a spiritual pilgrimage of growth and deeper faith when viewed through a biblical perspective. Nearly 75% of women experience new mental health ...
The Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman began scouring the Bible three years ago to do something that apparently had never been done: the cataloging of every word uttered by every woman in the more than 2,000 ...
In the book Conceived in Hope: The Struggles of Biblical Mothers in the Tapestry of Redemption, author Chana Tannenbaum quotes Prof. Uriel Simon of Bar-Ilan University as saying, “The Bible names ...
Women in the Bible – saintly or schemers, victims or victorious in war or in wooing – don’t actually notch a lot of verses of dialog. But these days their choices and actions, resonating throughout ...
Throughout Jewish history, pictures and graphic representations have been fundamental to how people shared and told their stories. However, much like the men creating them, these pieces of art, ...
Inspired by diverse traditions and misinterpretations of Mary of Magdala, this presentation embarks on a rereading of select women in the Bible. Several biblical women, such as Hagar, Jezebel, and the ...
Women dismissed as “prostitutes” and “adulteresses” were often models of righteousness and faith. Women fill the pages of the Bible. Some of them enter the narrative as mothers and wives, others as ...
(RNS) Living like a biblical woman, as Christian author Rachel Held Evans discovered, can be a real pain in thy rump. That's especially the case during a woman's "unclean" time of the month, when ...