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Hannah: Striking a bargain with God

The story of Hannah has always been one of my favorites in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 1,2). Imagine her joy upon learning she was pregnant after many years of infertility (her husband, Elkanah, was also married to another woman — and of course, the other wife had NO problems getting pregnant). But Hannah does something no other woman...

Eve and Rahab: Dynamic, not boring

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Lindsay Freeman

Bible women seem to find themselves as either all “good” or all “bad,” at least in the eyes of the world. Take Eve, for example. She’s bad. She ate the forbidden fruit. But why? Why would any woman, especially a smart one like Eve, even talk to a serpent? Maybe there’s a few reasons we’re not considering, a few good...

150 years later…

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Lindsay Freeman

I’m currently working with an awesome group of women doing Bible research. Our oldest member is in her ‘70s and our youngest is 15. The younger one came in today and said she’d been through the whole Bible again, on a two-week car trip with her family, and proceeded to add enormously to our work, as she always does. What...

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Anna: A Prophet and Woman of Prayer
Prayer as vocation Some people find it hard to pray. Others see it as a tiring task, a mandatory and muscular endeavor, to gain God’s blessings. For Anna, however prayer is a joy, and continually deepens her relationship with the One whom she loves above all others. She also knows what many don’t — that prayer involves all the senses......
The Witch of Endor: Deep caring, deep fear
Imagine an old woman, in about the year 1007 BCE, living alone in the Jezreel Valley, with only a hillside burrow for a home. Some call her a witch. Others use the world medium; others a necromancer. King Saul has said mediums should be killed, but townspeople still sneak away to see her under the cloak of night. Most jobs are closed to......
She showed up. Like women do.
“Jesus died and rose from the dead.” While not exactly a ho-hum expression, we often take it for granted. Think then, of the resurrection from another angle: What if no one had been there when Jesus walked out of that tomb? Would he have slogged through the streets of Jerusalem, perhaps winding up at Peter’s house? Would he have made his way......
Hagar: Precious in God’s Sight
Read Hagar’s story: Genesis 16 and 21:9-20 Hagar comes up in this Sunday’s lectionary, and her story could not be more timely, especially as our faith communities consider the sins of racism and oppression. She was many things: a slave and nemesis to Sarah; the first person in the Bible to name God (she called him El-Roi, “O God of......
Give me that living water!
3 Lent, Year C Lindsay Hardin Freeman Give me that living water! From the Gospel of John, chapter 4: “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?” And so says the Samaritan woman — a skeptical, assertive, and bright woman — who argues with Jesus as does no one else in......

Hannah: Striking a bargain with God

Eve and Rahab: Dynamic, not boring

150 years later…

Anna: A Prophet and Woman of Prayer

The Witch of Endor: Deep caring, deep fear

She showed up. Like women do.

Hagar: Precious in God’s Sight

Give me that living water!

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