Awaiting the Refugee King: A Christmas Reflection
This Christmas, I’m pondering the grittier, truer side of the nativity narrative through the lens of a refugee mother who waits with her…
Let the Wise Women Bring Their Gifts to Jesus
When I met this blazing high-school junior, I could tell she had a fire in her gut that compelled her to contend for…
Remembering the Grieving Women in the Christmas Story
I remember that Christmas when what I wanted most in the whole world was to be having a baby. We had been hoping…
What Do Women Long For? A Christmas Reflection
Merry Christmas from The Junia Project! Today our gift to you is this thoughtful and poignant reflection about what women truly want for…
Advent and the Agency of Mary
Few women in the Bible are more interesting, inspiring and the focus of devotion as Mary, mother of Jesus. With the Advent season…
Women in God’s Redemption Plan: An Advent Reflection
Christmas is coming. We are in the season of Advent, a time of waiting. Advent is the story of women. It is the…
Joy to the Women! An Advent Proclamation
Ah, Advent! Along with Christmas, Advent is the glorious and only time of year when Christians across the theological spectrum can agree on…
Mary’s Song – The Message of Christmas
Impromptu nativity reenactments are one of my favorite Christmas traditions. In our home, someone reads from the Gospel account and we bring out…
Women of Advent: A Vulnerable Genealogy
Recently, I heard a sermon preached almost entirely on Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew. I was visiting a church I attended in my youth,…
The Women of Advent: Mary of Nazareth
Mary is intentionally chosen and given a grand task that includes, but also extends beyond, childbearing. Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar suggests…
Mary of Nazareth: An Advent Reflection
Perhaps the most revealing glimpse into Mary’s true character can be found in the Magnificat…a bold and subversive prayer that reveals her own…
The Women of Advent: Bathsheba
Like the other women of advent, Bathsheba also has a troubled past. And Bathsheba also acts righteously, though it’s a story we don’t…
The Women of Advent: Ruth
What do you know about Ruth? She is named in the lineage of Jesus (one of King David's great great grandmothers). Her story…
The Women of Advent: Rahab
Rahab is commonly referred to as "Rahab the Prostitute". This nickname limits our understanding of who she was. Rahab plays the savior to…
The Women of Advent: Tamar
Tamar passes from the scene, but her impact continues…the woman who transformed the history of the kingdom of Judah also transformed Judah himself…