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In recent years the sharp focus on women's liberation has crystallized the need to right some wrongs. What it has frequently not done is to point out the indispensable place of the "fairer sex" at the time of the dawning of Christianity. One would think from some
speakers and writers that women never had an imperative part to play in world events until mid-twentieth century!
Who are the initial ones to come to our Lord's tomb on that grand and glorious first Easter? Well, we have "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome." Peter and a crew of male chauvinists are not there shouting orders to the three women to walk a few paces behind in submission until they "check things out by divine male right"! The trio was there first and that's the way it is.
When we are bombarded with one-sided materials today by radicals in the women's movement, let's not be sold a bill of goods. Let's remember a woman -- Mary, by name -- above all men, except her Son.
- Lacy
In recent years the sharp focus on women's liberation has crystallized the need to right some wrongs. What it has frequently not done is to point out the indispensable place of the "fairer sex" at the time of the dawning of Christianity. One would think from some
speakers and writers that women never had an imperative part to play in world events until mid-twentieth century!
Who are the initial ones to come to our Lord's tomb on that grand and glorious first Easter? Well, we have "Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome." Peter and a crew of male chauvinists are not there shouting orders to the three women to walk a few paces behind in submission until they "check things out by divine male right"! The trio was there first and that's the way it is.
When we are bombarded with one-sided materials today by radicals in the women's movement, let's not be sold a bill of goods. Let's remember a woman -- Mary, by name -- above all men, except her Son.
- Lacy
