Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church

Women Theologians and Bible Translators My last blog told the story of five women martyrs of the first three centuries of the Christian Church. In this post, I explained how I bought a book on 2,000 years of church history and only 7.8% of the people mentioned in the book were women, and I wonderedContinue reading “Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church”

Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church

Women Martyrs I recently bought a book “The Story of Christianity 2,000 Years of Faith”, published in 2000 by Dorling Kindersley to celebrate the millennium. I found it languishing on a shelf in a charity shop and thought it might be interesting. Opening it I was struck by how few women were mentioned in itsContinue reading “Celebrating Women Pioneers of the Early Church”

Phoebe, A Friend of Paul, Part 2

This is the third of my three blogs about an amazing church leader called Phoebe. It’s easy to get tied up in thoughts that Paul and the early church were against women leaders, speakers and missionaries. This is blatantly not true, and a close reading of Paul’s letters and the book of Acts in theContinue reading “Phoebe, A Friend of Paul, Part 2”