Tag: Mary

• 24th Jul 2023

  Women’s Voices: Women in the Bible

  

  School carol services provided (alongside Christingle services) my first encounters with the Word of God. Different students from each year group would be selected to do the Bible readings and in the Senior School, it was tradition for John 1 to be read every year by the Headmistress. So it was that my abiding memory…
• 17th Jul 2023

  Women’s Voices: On Motherhood, Pregnancy and Priesthood

  

  by Sorrel Shamel-Wood My Journey On Saturday, my son celebrated his first birthday. On Monday, my maternity leave ended and I returned to my role as assistant curate in the Dorchester Team Ministry, Diocese of Oxford. A lot has changed in the year of my absence: for a start, there is a new Supreme Governor…
• 6th Jul 2023

  Women’s Voices: Four biblical women teach us about church leadership

  

  Rahab, Mary, the Bleeding Woman, and Jairus’ Daughter by Revd. Olivia Haines Rahab, Mary (Jesus’ mother), the bleeding woman, and Jairus’ daughter: each of these women had a life changing encounter with God. Each can teach us something of the kind of leadership and ministry the church of the future needs. Rahab Rahab is placed…