by Bob | May 24, 2008 | Women, Women's History, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
The Hidden Tradition:Women of the Reformation, Part VListening to the Silenced VoicesWhen we listen to the silenced voices of the women of the Reformation we hear the Reformation message of the priesthood of all believers. These women took seriously the doctrine that...
by Bob | May 23, 2008 | Luther, Martin Luther, Women, Women's History, Women's Ministry, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
The Hidden Tradition:The Women of the Reformation, Part IVReformation historian Roland Bainton proposed that the Reformation had a primary effect on the role of women in society. The dropping of monasticism in Protestant lands “made for the exaltation of the home, the...
by Bob | May 22, 2008 | Women, Women's History, Women's Ministry, Women's Studies, Womens' Soul Care
The Hidden Tradition:The Women of the Reformation, Part IIIReformation historian Roland Bainton proposed that the Reformation had a primary effect on the role of women in society. The dropping of monasticism in Protestant lands “made for the exaltation of the home,...
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 | 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....