219. The Power of a woman

The voices of women are everywhere – loud and clear and powerful.  The debate on women’s rights and equality is heated and on-going.  Modern society has forcefully expanded the rights of women, even to the point of choosing to be a man.  Personally I had never wished to be a man, but I  have had the privilege to grow…

113. Woman, you are worthy.

We have talked about this. Old Judea by the turn of the first century was almost as bad as in some countries we read of today. Women had no rights and were mostly ignored as second rate citizens and wives to be used and abused. We in the Western World read about it in horror…

99. A woman for all time.

I am often so in awe of the Bible. It is an ancient document, astonishingly well-preserved, spanning several centuries and then zooming in to a story of an hour one day to bring the God of heaven and earth to an ordinary routine of survival. Let us look closely at a cameo encounter in John…