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Showing posts with label Saturday sisters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saturday sisters. Show all posts
December 24, 2020
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Revisiting Ruth
A few years back, i did a vew Saturday Sister meditations based on my reading of several Ruth novels.
Then i couldn't figure out what i could say without spoiling the plots of all of them.
Recently, i came across some illustrations that i made for posts never written, and thought i'd share them anyway.
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| This one i could not get to scan nicely, so i redid it in Windows Paint. |
Saturday Sisters: Daughters Helping Daddy
Shallum's daughters worked beside their father on the wall. But women couldn't do that, right?
Saturday Sisters: Looking at a Fictional Character
When i began this blog, and the Saturday Sisters, i never thought i would write about a totally fictitious character. But this one is hits a place a lot of us have wondered about.
Saturday Sisters: Novels about Sarah
This week i've read these two Sarah novels off my shelf. They are actually
Saturday Sisters: Dorcas Women
Today my friend Debbie Scales is a guest blogger. Thank you, Debbie, for your regular encouraging words!
This Dorcas woman
Saturday Sisters: Rebekah Again
The Ruth Project, Part 2a: "Spoilers" and Surprises
This is a difficult concept for me.
The Ruth Project: Part 1
Seeds: From Another Garden
i think this project
actually began last November. Eva Etzioni-Halevy's novels in our
local library may have been its genesis.
Actually it was the
not-Ruth novel, The Song of Hannah,
that i read first. It upended all i had been taught about Hannah,
Elkanah's the barren wife. Wasn't she the first, older wife? And
Peninnah the sharp-tongued, the second, younger wife, mother of
Elkanah's children?
Well, yes, to some of
the assumptions. Peninnah has the children, she makes Hannah's life
miserable (but maybe Hannah would've been miserable without Peninnah's
needling? i can totally see Peninnah's "needling" as an attempt to say Hannah had the better lot in life.)
Etzioni-Halevy's novel turns the situation on its
head. She depicts Hannah, at her best friend Pninah's
wedding, determining to also marry the attractive groom.
The The Garden of Ruth had a similarly unsuspected premise:
Saturday Sisters: An Interview with Author Diana Wallis Taylor
As part of my Ruth Project, i asked the author of one of the books for a brief interview. Diana Wallis Taylor, author of Ruth: Mother of Kings, graciously consented.
Saturday Sisters: Rhoda
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| Acts 12:13-14, The Message |
(or you can skip to Parts 4 & 5 for the actual Rhoda meditation)
Saturday Sisters: Hannah, God-Focused
Things
were not right in Hannah's home, or in her larger world.
Saturday Sisters: Phoebe
Faithful
Who
was Phoebe anyway? This is the only place we hear of her in
Scripture:
I
commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church,
which is at Cenchrea; Romans 16:1
A Saturday Sister, part 2: Ruth
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