Do Baby Girls Have More Cooties?
After my daughter’s birth, I asked a Hasidic mother of 7, “Why is a mother is ritually unclean for 1 week after she bears a son, but 2 weeks for a daughter?”
Tag: #Equality&Asymmetry
Should Women Wear Head Coverings
It is funny that Paul’s theology of gender argument hinges upon a woman’s accoutrement. But this issue of the moment became the occasion for profound teaching.
Jael Rides Again
A modern day story in the Hamas Massacre that brings a Biblical character back to life.
In the Old Testament, are women inferior to men?
So my wife teaches online high school and her curriculum includes going over the books of Leviticus and Numbers. Each year she tries to make the point that the Old Testament (OT) understands women as equally made in God’s image. And each year she gets some essays back saying that in the Old Testament women are inferior to men. “What?” she …