My Favorite "Woman of the Bible?"
By Rev. Dan Greg Growing up, my mother and the ladies at church were usually doing some sort of Bible study on "The Women of the Bible." Because of its specificity, these studies, with their feminine art and swirly cursive, images depicting painted-nailed hands gripping coffee cups; they usually distanced myself and other boys and men in the congregation from deeply learning about the faithful women of the Scriptures outside of the texts of the weekly lectionary. What a shame! I have spent time in recent years making up for that gap in my scriptural knowledge through personal study and going out of my way as a pastor to remember these faithful women in my teaching and preaching, as well as observing important feast days such as for Mary the mother of God, Mary Magdalene, and so on. So this International Women’s Day, I wanted to talk about my favorite woman in the Bible. She is lovely, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, fait...