Women Preaching

"In the New Testament story of Luke-Acts Anna and Mary speak as prophets, as do the four daughters of Philip (Acts 21:9). Mary learns from Jesus the teacher (Luke 10), and Priscilla teaches. Yet, when the women face the empty tomb and embrace the mission to tell the disciples what they have seen, ‘the story seemed like nonsense, and they refused to believe them.’ Women are taught by Jesus and speak for Jesus. They pray and they prophecy. Yet, even so visibly embraced, welcomed, challenged, and given the task of proclamation, the world will not listen."

— Turner and Hudson, “To be Saved From Silence” in Saved from Silence: Finding Women’s Voice in Preaching (St. Louis: Chalice Press) 1999, 88.

Is anyone else concerned...

about some of the things happening in and near the Holy Land? 

I'm concerned that what is going on in Gaza, Syria, and Iran, including international interplay between these places and their governments (as well as, potentially, North Korea, given its alliances).

I'm concerned that a war in the Middle East could result in destruction of countless places of religious and historical significance, including a multitude of holy sites.  I'm concerned that it could result in the effective genocide of the Palestinian people. 

I'm just concerned.