Famous Women in History ******* Eleanor Roosevelt served as the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. As a political figure, diplomat, and pacifist, she has long been heralded for her work in furthering human rights. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Famous Women in History ******* Rosa Parks was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement, whose name became synonymous with resistance to segregation after she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I …
Famous Women in History ******* Amelia Earhart was an aviation pioneer whose many records included becoming the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You …
Famous Women in History ******* Ada Lovelace used her “poetical science” to help Charles Babbage with his Analytical Engine (one of the first computers), and as such is often cited as the world’s first computer programmer. ******* “The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.”
Famous Women in History ******* Virginia Woolf was one of the most important authors of the 20th century. A pioneer of modernist literature, she and her work inspired such renowned writers as Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. ******* “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that …
Famous Women in History ******* Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, awarded for her pioneering research on radioactivity, as well as the first person and only woman to win two Nobel Prizes. ******* “Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.”
Famous Women in History ******* Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist who organized the suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, which helped women win the right to vote and inspired feminist movements around the world. ******* “We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the …
Influence of Daniel on Revelation, Part IV ******* Womanhood Introduced ******* As one further explores the influence of Daniel on John, perhaps a few clues will emerge to help answer some of these momentous concerns. Just as in Revelation 11, John combined the prophecies of Zechariah and Moses with Daniel’s dates for the Second Advent, …
Famous Women in History ******* In every aspect of life, from the arts to science and technology, women have excelled in the face of patriarchal and sexist societies, in which their achievements have often been downplayed or even credited to men. Though much has improved, thanks to the efforts of generations of activists and feminists, …
Famous Women in History ******* INTRODUCTION ******* Despite living in a world long dominated by men, women have shaped history just as much as their male counterparts. Women have held positions of power for millennia — as far back, at least, as 2400 BCE and the reign of the Sumerian queen Kubaba, the first recorded …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 8 ******* Today, with varying views or understandings of the nature of Jehovah, Elohim—still that constant Being who had made man both male and female—has emerged as the one constant for a new age, an age that rules without favoring either sex or gender. A new word for this …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 7 ******* The Law of Truth: Truth pounds error; any person or institution embracing the error also receives the pounding and eventually joins the dust carried away in the wind. To avoid the pounding, one must let go of the error. Denying the error and declaring the truth make …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 6 ******* One of the defects of human nature is to look down on others so that we feel better about ourselves. The treatment of females in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia is obviously deplorable. But do Western men, at least in part, look down upon the developing nations’ …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 5 ******* If we are to accept the masculine and feminine nature of God as discussed in Chapters 2, 3, and 5, then the degree to which a society or culture grasps the nature of Deity can be measured in part by the degree to which that society or …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 4 ******* Human nature resists change. This resistance to change is perhaps one of humanity’s greatest weaknesses. Furthermore, one of the great ironies of humanity is that erroneous beliefs are often prolonged by superstitions, by misunderstandings, and, sometimes, by arrogance embodied in human institutions that claim to be the …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 3 ******* Not everyone is like Alabama’s former Governor George Wallace, who first stood for segregation, even standing up to the Federal Government, but who later accepted integration, even becoming a champion of jobs for blacks. With knowledge running to and fro at an ever-increasing rate, with communications uniting …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 2 ******* Outside the spiritual realm, perhaps the one major constant of our modern age is change. This change awakens new truths in our thought. We then synthesize them with the proven ones of the past to bring humanity closer to Truth. With this process, humanity becomes less shackled. …
Paul’s Teachings about Women, Epilogue, Part 1 ******* Outside the spiritual realm, perhaps the one major constant of our modern age is change. This change awakens new truths in our thought. We then synthesize them with the proven ones of the past to bring humanity closer to Truth. With this process, humanity becomes less shackled. …
Paul’s Teachings about Women, Part 7 ******* Specific women mentioned in Acts: Lydia, Damaris, Euodias, and Syntyche ******* Specific women mentioned in Romans: Priscilla, Aquila, and Phebe ******* When it comes to reading about women in the New Testament, one cannot always take as gospel the words on the printed page because they may be …
Gender Equality References, Part III ******* Humans in the tabernacle of God with men in the latter days must reflect the divine in a gender-equality society, the qualities of both masculine and feminine equally valued in each individual. A few years ago, an attorney friend sent an email with an attached article about so many …
ST. PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 6 ******* In addition, as we can see from the many examples at the end of this chapter, Paul named many women who were leaders in his churches. He even honored a married couple, Priscilla and Aquilla, mentioning her name first, a sign that she probably was the greater …
GENDER EQUALITY REFERENCES, Part II ******* The Tabernacle of God with men in the latter days must live gender-equal ideals among humankind. Jesus demonstrated how to live a life reflecting equality of the sexes. Some religious convictions result in unconditional acceptance of false ideas from scholastic theology, which is a mixture of pagan philosophy and …
ST. PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 5 ******* Paul wrote, “There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). But we must also acknowledge the challenge Paul had in building a Church from two cultures, Hebrew and Greek, both of which were based on hard-core dominance by men. …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 4 ******* A PBS program says that all three monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—teach men and women to “love a spouse the way God loves us.” However, today an examination of actuality shows that some men don’t necessarily follow this teaching. Patriarchy contradicts all three faiths, substituting Aristotle’s commanding and …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 3 ******* To get a clear picture of Paul’s thought, let’s start with a passage that did not get mistranslated: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). The message …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 2 ******* The purpose of this chapter is to examine what Paul wrote about men and women. To do this, we will have to remove the Aristotelian translating filter to find the Pauline thought in the epistles he did pen or dictate and also to separate the epistles that Paul …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, PART 1 ******* The Apostolic Church began with a continuation of Christ Jesus’ exoneration of women. Men and women prayed together, as when they prayed “with one accord” to be led of God in choosing a replacement for Judas, the traitor (Acts 1:14+). “Multitudes both of men and women” were accepted …
GOD is SPIRIT, Part 2 ******* As mentioned before, Wisdom in the Old Testament was discussed as feminine, even as a feminine personification. And Wisdom (sometimes also called by the name Sophia, derived from the Greek word for Wisdom) was associated with Spirit, often also considered to be feminine.[i] Thus Spirit, based upon both ancient …
GOD is SPIRIT, Part 1 ******* God Is Infinite Spirit ******* Besides the names God and Lord God, perhaps Spirit is the next most frequently mentioned name for God in the Scriptures. It appears about forty times in the Old Testament, often as Spirit of God or Spirit of the Lord, with Spirit either capitalized …
GOD is TRUTH, Part 2 ******* So how does what these men of authority who have written about God as Truth relate to how we view women? ******* Thomas Aquinas, for the most part, was brilliant in expressing theology, but his views of women were contaminated by ancient Greek mythology, especially, Aristotle’s works. He began …