Unnamed women in the New Testament – Part 3
Philip’s Four Prophesying Daughters You often see personalised gifts on the shelves of garden centres and gift shops, and I can never resist looking for my family members’ names. Recently, I bought a photo frame that explained the meaning of my new granddaughter’s name. The name Susan comes from the Hebrew name Shoshannah and means…
Unnamed Women in the New Testament-Part 2
Do you know how you got your name? There’s not much we can do about our family name or surname unless we want to change it completely, but we can thank, or blame, our parents for our first names. My mother wanted to call me Pamela, but I was named Susan after a neighbour’s doll…
Unnamed women in the New Testament – part 1
Our names are very important to us, and having had the privilege of naming two new humans, it can also be quite daunting to wonder whether the name we give them as babies will suit them as adults. My granddaughter was born a few months ago, and I discovered her name while in the queue…
Abbess Hilda of Whitby
The Revd Hazel M Aucken writes, “I’ve been following Sue’s blogs of early Christian female pioneers with interest, not least because I trained for ordination at St Hild’s College, based in Sheffield, Mirfield, York and online. It’s an amazing seat of inspirational learning, founded as recently as 2017, with a name `chosen to capture our rootedness in…
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Writing a novel is a strange thing to do, and for someone usually so gregarious, it is a lonely occupation. To lock yourself away for months on end, tapping away at a keyboard, with only the radio for company. So why do I do it?
The story of Martha of Bethany is so compelling that I want to share it with others. My Leaving Bethany series is based on Biblical accounts, interwoven with church tradition and a good dollop of my imagination. The story of Martha started as a short story, then a novella, before becoming a full-length novel. And finally a trilogy. I am currently working on the third and final novel in the series.
I am currently working on a sequel which will catch up with Martha five years after the end of Leaving Bethany.
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