Inconvenient characters
A rich treasure trove
Rahab
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Zelophohads daughters
The syrophoenician woman
Susannah
Miriam
Reading scripture
Tamar
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Glass shattering
Mortgage
Pay equity still a challenge
Succession in the royal family in Britain
Has been used to suppress women
The role of daughters in the Hebrew Bible
Naomi
Waiata
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Womanist ways of reading the biblical texts are subversive, and that by and large they disrupt tightly held images of God and God’s relationship to humanity.”
I am providing people with the tools and the permission to see others differently.
Intersectionality
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Crossing boundaries
Leading us on to a larger place
Encountering the other
My recent experiences
Humility
Wisdom
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Either way, this story suggests that transgressing traditional social boundaries in order to encounter the “other” will often seem like an “indignity” (from the perspective of collective honor); but this is the cost of inclusion.