The Woman Who Touched Jesus by The Rev. Steven S. Bryant *In the Litany of the Miraculous * Mark’s Gospel reads like a litany of miraculous healings. In chapter one alone, Jesus casts out demons, He relieves Simon’s mother-in-law of a terrible fever, multitudes with various maladies and possessions are given a …
by Sylvia Dooling Just a handful of days ago I was in Louisville for the 2003 Presbyterian Women’s Churchwide Gathering. Like many others who were there, I returned weary and worn out from the whirlwind of events that PW packed into the four-day-long meeting. However, after taking some time to rest and to …
by Marcia Slentz-Whalen Every three years Presbyterian women from all across the nation and around the world travel to a Triennial PW Gathering expecting to have a ‘mountaintop experience”. Once again, this year’s event was disappointing in many ways, two notable exceptions being: · The VOW Booth in the Exhibit Hall. · The…
Pagans In The Pews: How the New Spirituality is Invading Your Home, Church and Community author Peter Jones. Regal Books, 2001. 288 pages by Robert Dooling _Pagans in the Pews_ is an in-depth study of the influence of ancient Gnosticism on the contemporary church. Its thesis is that there are currently two worldviews…
Sexuality, Sexual Identity and Drug Abuse by Kathleen C. Banaszak, MS, LSW, LPCC Women as Risk-Takers for God, by Lorry Lutz. Baker Books, World Evangelism Fellowship, Grand Rapids, MI, 1997. $15.99 (Endorsed by Christians for Biblical Equality) Women, Abuse and the Bible (How Scripture Can be Used to Hurt and Heal), by …
of Women and Men by Catherine Clark Kroeger, Viola Larson, and Tracee Hackel Barton, Ruth R., _Becoming a Woman of Strength; 14 Life Challenges for Women and the Men who Love them_. Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw, 1994 Barton, Ruth Haley, _Equal to the Task: Men and Women in Partnership_. Downers Grove, IL:…
To The VOW Network by The VOW Board of Directors Remembering Unnamed Women in Scripture) Regrettably, the Horizons Bible Study for 2003-2004 is so flawed that the Board of Directors of Voices of Orthodox Women has voted to recommend that the women of the Presbyterian Church…
by Marcia Slentz-Whalen [*Editor’s Note*: Last year after discovering that 1997 Birthday Offering receipts had been invested in the production of a video series on human sexuality that advocates and promotes a philosophy that is hostile to the biblical and confessional standards of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Voices of Orthodox Women brought the…
An Imaginative composition for Advent by Viola Larson The huge feathered wing, the sixth and final one, sprang forward with a ferocious speed nearly knocking the nearby angel into a different dimension. The new creature tried covering his mouth with the new wing, but instead managed to hit his forehead and cover one…
Observations on a Broken Trust by Sylvia Dooling In the late 50’s, when I was a teenager growing up in Southern California, the City of Los Angeles had a curfew law. On Friday and Saturday night, promptly at 10:00, every television channel in LA would break to an announcer who would speak the…