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 image

Naomi

Waiata

Check with Mua

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

Define

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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.