women in the Bible
Women are essential in the Bible. Now they’re in the Sunday readings
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — ‘What does it look like to tell the Good News through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news?’ asks the Rev. Wilda Gafney.
How the Mormon Sunday School curriculum devalues the prophet Deborah
By Jana Riess — May 11, 2018
By dismissing Deborah as a mere sidekick to Barak, the Mormon Gospel Doctrine manual refuses to see her in the way the Bible describes: as a prophet and a judge.
‘Fierce-ass’ women of the Bible
By Jana Riess — February 21, 2017
Alice Connor knows there are lots of other books about women in the Bible, but use the Bible's stories to emphasize how women can be better wives and mothers. This book is not about that. This book is about being fierce.
Women: Just 1% of the Bible
By Jana Riess — November 25, 2014
Women's words account for just over 1% of the Bible, but author Lindsay Hardin Freeman is determined to tell their stories. "These woman are real, dynamic, challenging, and fallible," she says. "God’s love for them, and us, is as strong as the world’s foundations."
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