Both men and women were created to reflect the complementary relationship of the triune God. No one was made above the other. God’s original design for mankind was for them to live in equality without superiority and for them to have unity without uniformity. The woman came from man (Adam’s
“Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” Many of our readers will recognize these words from Luke’s gospel (1:45). He attributes them to Elizabeth, an old Jewish woman from the Judean countryside. She had been barren but now is pregnant
Every child needs a male father and a female mother. So wrote Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires before becoming Pope Francis. In a day where there is personal and cultural confusion about what it means to be a woman and a man, what it means to be a
Whence the power of a young woman over a young man? For the answer we must turn to Genesis. This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man (Genesis 2:23 ESV). This is the
In my experience, there is one truth that almost always brings women to tears: the transcendent nature of the maternal heart. When they hear what the Bible says about a woman’s nurturing instinct, that God’s maternal heart is the source of their own mothering nature, they often break down. The
