January 2024 | Conversion: Persecutor Turns Promoter
Organized religion has tended to devalue women and deny them power and influence. This includes organized Christendom throughout much of its history.Christendom is never as radical as the Bible. When we read the Bible, it becomes clear that God has always had different ideas about women ...Read More
In his ‘Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Luke’, the great bishop J.C. Ryle points out“It was not a woman who sold the Lord for thirty pieces of silver. They were not women who for sook the Lord in the garden and fled. It was not a woman who denied him three times in the high priest’s hou...Read More
Religions have played key roles in shaping the history of the world and peoples. The liberating New Testament had emancipated the slaves, the gentiles, the women, the Samaritans and set them free from the age old bondages. But in spite of the many positive theological statements about women in...Read More
Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) A brief history
Pandita Ramabai was a social reformer who was passionate about Christ and passionate about woman. Ramabai was born in 1858 to a high caste Brahmin Sanskrit scholar, Anant Shastri Dongre. Her father breaking tradition, taught his wife and daughter, Pandita, the sacred languages The f...Read More
An Open Letter to Women Crying for Empowerment
My Beloved Sisters in Christ, First of all, this letter is written in love.Secondly, it is written not as a viewpoint but from the fruit of experience.Thirdly, it is written to inform that I do not believe in ‘women’s empowerment’. It is merely a commercial concept and by subscribing to it, we...Read More
Interpreting “Texts of Terror” in the Bible: Implications for Women Empowerment
The very title of this paper assumes significance, because of what the Bible means to the community of faith. The title also implies a sense of unease with regard to certain biblical texts that portray war and violence. In this paper, I am particularly concerned about the texts that portray violence...Read More
Restriction or Mutuality in Gender Roles ?
Paul’s positive approach to women and their roles in the church can be seen in Rom. 16:1-16, and it is paradoxical to hear Paul’s seemingly indifferent tone elsewhere in dealing with the roles of women in the church (1 Cor. 11:2-16; cf.14:34f ; 1 Tim. 2:13f). 1 Cor. 11:2-16 poses an appare...Read More
Christian Professional Women have a major role to play in the expansion of God’s kingdom! To whom much is given, much will be required (Luke 12:48).Women play a great role in the growth and development of the society and the kingdom of God. This implies that educated women are not only the privile...Read More