Unsung Heroes Only 93 women speak in the entirety of the Bible, and of those, only 49 have names. These women speak a total of 14,056 words in the entire Bible (NRSV) – a little over 1% of the total words in the entire book. Some of the women featured…
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Faith
Making Magic
Making Magic Between December of 2017 and February of 2018, the world was taken by storm by two films - landmark releases from two major film franchises. The first was Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi, which in typical Star Wars form destroyed box office competition. Shortly after, the…
Authority
Authority On July 8, at 4:30 p.m., delegates of the Seventh-day Adventist church at the 2015 General Conference session in San Antonio, TX, voted 58% to 41% not to allow individual geographical divisions to decide for themselves whether to ordain women to ministry. Coming as it did after…
Discipline
Discipline Growing up a the child of a pastor, I quickly got used to church members having opinions about me: what I should read, what activities I should participate in, and more than anything else, what I should or should not wear.Somehow, it never became normal to me to…
Gifted
Gifted Learning another language is hard. There are special kinds of verb tenses, past and future forms, plurals, and dozens of exceptions to every rule, not to mention the languages that require you to memorize the gender of every single noun. Not only is learning a new language hard – it…