Older sisters are to be respected in the ecclesia as “mothers” and as such are to “teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed”. It is …
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We live in a vastly different society from the one when the scriptural principles were laid down and written for our admonition and learning (Rom 15:4).
Society is vastly different from my early recollections of ecclesial life in the thirties and forties. I was not around when women were franchis…
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It was the famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe who said that “she had in mind to write a novel about slavery – but the baby cried too much”. One woman has commented that it would have been more plausible had she said “but the baby smiled too much”.
The point is, many women find …
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