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Infertility and the Scriptural Promise
Before I begin my series on birth stories from the scriptures I feel like I need to address the topic of infertility. Most of the stories about birth in the scriptures revolve around women’s inability...
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“Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?”: Sarah’s Birth Story
I really love Sarah’s birth story. We don’t actually get to hear how she physically gave birth to Issac, which is too bad because personally I would love to hear how a woman who was almost 100 years...
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Deep Beauty
When I was younger I was a bit discouraged by the fact that most of the important women in the scriptures are always described as being very physically attractive. For example, in his vision of Mary,...
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The Blessings of Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel
Image Source Last week in Sunday School we talked about the Abrahamic covenant, the promises that God makes to Abraham about his posterity in Genesis 17. We know that God does not just make covenants...
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Abraham’s Tent
I wrote this essay my last semester in college for the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, a very prestigious essay contest. It made it into the top 50 essays. Which, considering there were over 3,000...
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Dwelling in a Tent
Lately I am feeling a bit like I imagine Sarah felt when she and Abraham left their home in Haran to go into the wilderness of Canaan, to“.. the land that I will shew thee” (Genesis 12:1). Or how...
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Breastfeeding Women in the Scriptures: Part 1
Several years ago I did a series on women’s birth stories from the scriptures. It was really a wonderful experience to go through those women’s stories and piece together their experiences. For some...
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