As reported here in October 2012, the board of directors for the “Voices of Orthodox Women” voted to bring their particular ministry to a close: “VOW’s active ministry was discontinued in the fall of 2012, and the board of directors will be dissolved on May 31, 2013. The website will be deleted from…
Working Notes by Sylvia Dooling *These are my own working notes* Let me begin by saying the notes that I will be posting each month on ‘What She Said” are my own working documents. They are some of what I will use as I help the PW Bible Study Leaders in my…
by Brittany Dowdy* The nature of God has always been a difficult issue to address, precisely because, as we are finite and God is infinite, we can never hope to fully understand the mysterious Being we worship. But there are certain things he has revealed to us, and it is these I would…
by Sylvia Dooling The Key Idea of this lesson is: Joshua and the Israelites found rest not in the absence of war or in a new land, but in God. This is where we find our rest, as well. That statement, of course, is true. But, it is not a truth that…
by Sylvia Dooling This was an edition of Horizons that immediately got my attention! Human Trafficking is an issue about which Voices of Orthodox Women is deeply concerned, and one of only a handful of social concerns upon which we have publicly taken a stand.[i] So, I was keenly interested in what Presbyterian…
by Sylvia Dooling I have two concerns about this lesson: 1. The author underscores VOW’s major objection with this Horizons Bible Study when she writes, “Some of these narrative are relatively accurate, historically speaking, but others are not. However, no matter how much scholars agree or disagree about the historicity of particular…
by Sylvia DoolingIn my opinion, the author does not study the cities of refuge so much as she makes them a pretext for exploring a broader subject of terrorism in the Middle East. In fact, on Page 73, she says “I may be going too far, but I believe that so-called “preemptive wars” all too…
by Sylvia Dooling The author makes this lesson a commentary on contemporary issues (inclusiveness and hospitality) rather than a study of the texts themselves. In the process, she makes this Bible study a pretext for advocating her political biases. That is to say, the story of Rahab…
by Terrye McAnally – The key idea quotation seems to contradict any of the nuance of Mikhael’s work and states Kinnamon’s opinion as fact. It is interesting that this quotation appears at all, given the publication timeline of this sort of material. Supposing it is a later…
by The Rev. Karen Lynn Woo* Ignoring the cold, winter wind which bit through her wool coat, Tabitha smiled as she left the grocery store with all the fixings for Friday’s Christmas dinner and thought about the Christmas she had planned for her husband Samuel and their three…