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Joy to the Women! An Advent Proclamation

November 29, 2016 by Rachel Hackenberg

Ah, Advent!

Along with Christmas, Advent is the glorious and only time of year when Christians across the theological spectrum can agree on women’s participation in God’s work.

In Advent, we do not exclude women from signaling God’s presence (Isaiah 7:14). Let the day arrive when the whole Church* welcomes women’s ordained service in mediating the Divine!

In Advent, we acknowledge the strong-willed, outsider women who shaped Jesus’ lineage (especially Tamar, Rahab and Ruth in Matthew 1:1-5). Let the day quickly come when the Church heeds women’s voices speaking prophetically from the margins!

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Advent, Elizabeth in the Bible, Mary in the bible, Rachel Hackenberg, Rahab in the bible, Ruth in the bible, Tamar in the bible

Women of Advent: A Vulnerable Genealogy

December 9, 2015 by Cara Strickland

Recently, I heard a sermon preached almost entirely on Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew. I was visiting a church I attended in my youth, a place where I learned a lot of what I’ve needed to unlearn about theology of women. I was delighted to see that the pastor immediately picked out the women in the narrative, a little disappointed to realize that he did so only to point out that they were all foreigners, with the exception of Mary. But this got me thinking in another direction, as sermons so often do. I began to think through these five women, to question what else they might have in common.

Filed Under: Christmas, Jesus and women, Women and the Bible Tagged With: Advent, Bathsheba in the Bible, Cara Strickland, Mary in the bible, Rahab in the bible, Ruth in the bible, Tamar in the bible

Rahab’s Role in Our Redemption

December 26, 2014 by Kelly Ladd Bishop

The story of Jericho is a gruesome one. When the Israelites took the city they destroyed the inhabitants, men, women, children, and animals, and burned it all. When Achan, an Israelite, disobeyed God and took some of the devoted things from Jericho, he and his family were destroyed as well. Sin, destruction, and loss of life abounds. But in the midst of the chaos, destruction, and calamity, the story of Jesus is there – in Rahab.

Filed Under: Women and the Bible, women in the old testament Tagged With: Kelly Ladd Bishop, Rahab in the bible

The Women of Advent: Rahab

December 9, 2013 by Kate Wallace Nunneley

Rahab is commonly referred to as “Rahab the Prostitute”. This nickname limits our understanding of who she was. Rahab plays the savior to Israel by protecting the spies, declaring their victory, and enabling God’s plan to move forward; and she foreshadows the coming Savior, Jesus, who will be one of her own descendants.

Filed Under: Christmas Tagged With: Advent, Kate Wallace Nunneley, Rahab in the bible

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