One of my son’s favourite picture books is ‘The Paper Bag Princess’. I think he mainly likes it because of the dragon in it, but I like...

I love the novel Pride and Prejudice. Although the adult in me can recognise Persuasion as Austen’s better work, the Bennet sisters were...

We all know what it’s like to be ignored. To be constantly talked over in meetings at work. To be the one in the family who’s always...

​ I’m going to give birth in a few months. That’s a very ordinary thing on one hand. After all, women do it every day, and though some...

‘… but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.’ (Gen 29:17, ESV) Imagine if you were the first half of this sentence, the bit that...

It’s a story about a young girl, she is probably a teenager and she lives with her family, which is mostly her brothers and half-brothers...

This article looks at what the Bible says about Mary Magdalene, and especially at what “Magdalene” might mean. Does it refer to Mary’s...

Today as we conclude our series on the Old Testament women mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy, we come to a woman in a most desperate...

Perhaps you have heard Rahab referred to as a ‘shady lady’. After all, she was a prostitute. However, overwhelmingly the Bible’s...

Tamar’s story is the stuff of a Broadway show with its costumes and mistaken identity. It’s also the stuff of nightmares, this woman...