The 2014 Top 10 Coolest Bible Women Awards
Movie stars have the Oscar awards, world leaders the Nobel prizes, TV the Emmy awards...
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From Sticky Notes to a 477-Page Book
Readers often want to know how this book came about—and here’s the answer: Several years ago, I’d just finished a book, The Scarlet Cord: Conversation with God’s Chosen Women, telling the stories of twelve Bible women from a first-person perspective. Because women in the Bible tend not to say much, I filled in historical details where possible: why they took the...
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Deborah: God, Politics and Inner Chaos
In these post-election days—depending on your point of view, of course—things might seem widely out of control, depressing, exhaustive, nonsensical. It might have appeared that way, too, in ancient Israel, in about the year 1150 BC...
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The Ten Bible Women Who Spoke the Most
Who were the ten women who said the most in the Bible? Counting down...
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Bible Women: Bright Lights in the Freezing Darkness
Bible women suffer horrible loss, and at times are like pawns moved around on a patriarchal chess board, but they remain bright lights in sacred history. Ever wonder what it was like for women in biblical times? We know this much: life was exceedingly tough, especially in the violent pre-monarchy years. Women were routinely assigned marriage partners by their fathers or brothers for...
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The Power of Unmarried Women
Married. Unmarried. What do we know about the marital status of women in the Bible? We assumed, when doing the four-year research project that would eventually turn into Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter, that most women in the Bible would be married. After all, sadly, power in biblical times for women seemed to come from men. Daughters...
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Women in the Bible Push Against Restraints
What do we know about women in the Bible? Research conclusion #2: Start to finish, women in the Bible push against restraints, using their God given gift of free will. From the first woman to speak in the Bible (Eve) to the last (the fortune-telling slave girl in Acts), Bible women knock on doors seeking healing, redemption and freedom—or, in the case...
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Women in the Bible Do Not Shuffle Across Its Pages
What do we know about Bible women? Research conclusion #1: Bible women, especially those who speak, are surprisingly bold. Traditionally, the view of Bible women has been they are subservient and passive—but that is like saying the earth is flat, or environmental disasters have nothing to do with climate change. Shrinking violets they are not. Immoral or moral, most step up and say...
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Ever wonder how many words in the Bible are said by women? Several of us have just spent almost four years researching that very question...
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Hidden Pain, Hidden Treasures
In the springtime, my mother would bring lilacs inside, big armfuls of them, and put them in deep burgundy glass vases. Their fresh and wild scent filled the house, wafting through screen windows that had been hand-changed, from storms to screens, only weeks before. And maybe that’s why they smelled so good. In Minnesota, springtime is earned, not taken for granted....
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