Category: Woman and Gender

  The Bible is a place of comfort. A place of wisdom, knowledge, counsel and inspiration. It is also a place of narrative, a place of story. God’s wisdom is often reflected in the lives of the Biblical characters, so is His Truth and Character. My excitement is always kindled when Gods Voice begins to...

There is a desperation that lives within the soul of a slave. Every day the desperation grows louder until it cannot be contained.  The slaves torn from their homes in Africa travelled to America bound in shackles bound for the New World of pain, in a word hell – bound. Those who died during the...

The following article first appeared in Sarah’s Tent Magazine Spring 2013. The book of Samuel narrates a tragic story that cannot help but leave us as readers, cold and sad. The reality is that the Bible is not a history book for the faint-hearted, neither is it a tall tale of make believe stories. Rather...

Once upon a time in a land far far away, there lived a strong daughter of Israel whose family and kin were oppressed by hard taskmasters, in a land that resembled a fiery furnace. Ruled by proud  pharaoh’s whose arrogance and sun–worshiping debaucheries defiled the land and made its people appear all the more evil, this strong, beautiful...

 The Torah outlines the magnificent, intricacies of the Tabernacle which was to be constructed according to the exact pattern shown to Moshe, in the Wilderness. The children of Israel were called to serve and meet YHWH at this place – where Heaven met earth. However the linen, wool, gold, silver, bronze and other materials required...

Modern day readers of the bible tend to gloss over certain passages found in scripture. One of these “glossed – over” areas of scripture are the lists of genealogies found in the Tanach and the list of greetings found in the Brit Chadasah. The problem with this however, is that the names of the great men and women of Yah,...

Purim is a time of celebration! A time where children put on masks and costumes, the Scroll (Megillah) Esther is read aloud amongst shouts of boo (in honour of Haman!) and shouts of jubilation (in honour of Morechai!). However the story of Esther is much deeper then the costumes and the parties, then the fun...

Much of what we know and understand about the Brit Chadasha (New Testament), including the characters and lives of the followers of Yeshua; have been handed down to us through the agenda of translators and religious systems. So much error and agenda have slipped in that the real-life men and women who walked with Yeshua...