INTRODUCTION Sadly, it is a HUGE mistake to approach Mary’s narrative like “The Night Before Christmas,” as if her story were only available to us at Christmas time. Mary’s story, when embraced properly, shows us the significance and power of her life, as a spiritual roadmap to female empowerment. This Gen Z girl from the …

If we think of the history of humanity as a tapestry with repeating patterns, we can clearly envision a world where biblical history connects to our own present age circumstances. In other words, as the writer of Ecclesiastes observes: “there is nothing new under the sun.” And so it is with a world at war, …

INTRODUCTION We are often prompted to think of the formation of Scripture as linear, but students of Scripture know better. The Holy Script was not written in order of the way the books appear, and moreover, most books of the Bible were written in part, rather than the whole. For example, Exodus, is often called …

INTRODUCTION It is not surprising that the brilliant work of the “Stages of Grief” was created by a woman. In 1969, a woman named Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced to the world a book, “On Death and Dying. Her seminal work with patients, gave voice and methodology, as to how physicians and therapists would assist in healing …