by Bob | May 21, 2008 | Women, Women's History, Women's Ministry, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
The Hidden Tradition:The Women of the Reformation, Part IIMany readers are familiar with the names associated with the male leaders of the Reformation era. Few, however, recognize the unheralded names of the women of the Reformation. By unveiling their hidden...
by Bob | Apr 3, 2008 | Women, Women's History, Women's Ministry, Womens' Soul Care
Ammas: Spiritual MothersAdmittedly, hearing the word “Amma” can be puzzling. We’re more familiar with the word “Abba” from Romans 8:15 where we learn that through the Spirit of sonship we cry, “Abba, Father.” “Amma” comes from the same cultural context. Both Abba and...
by Bob | Mar 10, 2008 | Women, Women's History, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
A Spiritual Sister to a Church FatherMuch of our knowledge of Olympias comes from an anonymous fifth-century document composed by someone who knew her well (The Life of Olympias) and from the Church father John Chrysostom, who poured out his heart to her in seventeen...
by Bob | Mar 8, 2008 | Black Church History, Women, Women's History, Women's Ministry, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
An Amazing Sister in an Amazing FamilyMacrina the Younger (327-379 AD) came from one of the most amazing families in all of Church history. Her paternal grandmother was Macrina the Elder, her mother was Emmelia, and her brothers were Peter, Basil and Gregory of Nyssa....
by Bob | Mar 4, 2007 | Church Mothers, Women's Ministry, Womens' Soul Care
The Legacy of Macrina the Elder Macrina the Elder learned the Christian life in the school of suffering. She was born sometime before 270 AD in Neocaesarea in Pontus (Asia Minor). During the persecution of Diocletian, Macrina fled the city with her husband and they...
by Bob | Feb 18, 2007 | Women, Womens' Soul Care
The Voice of the Martyrs, Part 2Rewinding the Tape (Review from Part 1)Vibia Perpetua lived in Carthage in North Africa during the persecution of Christians under Septimius Severus. At the time of her arrest in 202 AD, she was a twenty-year-old mother of an infant...
