Fiona Isaacs
Five Sisters, One Problem
I love the novel Pride and Prejudice. Although the adult in me can recognise Persuasion as Austen’s better work, the Bennet sisters were...
Tamie Davis
The bent woman Jesus raises up
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...
Tamie Davis
Biblical mothers, a cloud of witnesses
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...
Tamie Davis
Women in the Bible: Leah the unlovely
‘… 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...
Fiona Isaacs
Dinah
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...
Margaret Mowczko
What the Bible says about Mary the Magdalene
This article looks at what the Bible says about Mary Magdalene, and especially at what “Magdalene” might mean. Does it refer to Mary’s...
Tamie Davis
Ruth the kind
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...
Tamie Davis
Rahab the hospitable
Perhaps you have heard Rahab referred to as a ‘shady lady’. After all, she was a prostitute. However, overwhelmingly the Bible’s...
Tamie Davis
Tamar the righteous
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...
Tamie Davis
Bathsheba the nameless
As we commence our series on the Old Testament women mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy, we start with the woman who is unnamed. We can...
