Women of the Bible in Context

Send us Fan Mail Discipleship can feel like a stack of expectations you’re supposed to survive: the right books, the right habits, the right answers, the right level of ministry output. When real life hits disability, chronic illness, medical trauma, depression, grief, burnout that whole system often leaves people feeling like they failed God. We sit down with Liz Day, an autistic hospital chaplain, teacher, and theologian, to name what’s broken in modern Western discipleship models and to of...

Send us Fan Mail Your mental picture of the Nativity might be built on a few tiny assumptions that snowballed into a whole Christmas “scene” we all take for granted. Jessica sits down with author Julie Remington to pull those assumptions apart gently and rebuild the story using what Luke and Matthew actually say, what Bible translation choices imply, and what archaeology suggests about daily life in first-century Judea. Julie shares why she wrote The Forgotten Nativity, a historically ...

Send us Fan Mail Some Bible passages don’t just confuse us, they sting. When Leviticus talks about menstruation and childbirth, a lot of women quietly wonder: Why would God call my normal body “unclean”? Why would worship feel off-limits because of bleeding, recovery, or postpartum realities? We name that discomfort out loud, then slow down and read Leviticus 12 and Leviticus 15 the way the original audience would have heard them. We start with the big picture of Leviticus: Israel has just c...

Send us Fan Mail If your mental picture of Old Testament women is “invisible and powerless,” it may be built more from modern debates than from the ancient world the Bible actually describes. I grew up with a complementarian framework that treated authority as a gender-based umbrella, but digging into ancient Israelite households forced me to rethink almost everything I assumed about women of the Bible. We walk through why the ancient Near East is not one flat culture, comparing Egypt, Mesop...

Send us Fan Mail We walk through the deeper reasons we can no longer hold complementarianism, focusing on Bible reading frameworks, power, and the new-covenant identity of believers. We explain why historical context, Genesis, Jesus’ teaching on authority, and adoption to sonship reshape how we think about women in ministry and leadership. • Defining complementarianism and egalitarianism in plain terms • Why our minds changed without re-litigating the “big three” passages •...