St Hilda (AD 614-680) University Church, Oxford. She was the founder and abbess of the monastery (men and women) at Whitby. Women as shepherds pre-date Bo Peep.

“…they seized Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country. They placed the cross on his back and made him carry it behind Jesus. A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.” Luke 23:26-27 NET

Now hear me out. This might be crazy, but I think there might be a way to stop sex abuse in the church from distracting from the mission of the church …

Stop the abuse? Report the abusers? Fire the ones who cover up sex abuse?

Congrats to Hannah Dreier of The New York Times who won a Pulitzer (her 2nd!) for an exposé of migrant child labor in the modern US and the gov't blunders/disregard that have allowed the illegal practice to persist. Her 2019 prize was for @Propublica coverage of the criminal gang MS-13.

Get 60% OFF the audio version of “Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament” through 5/10.

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Well deserved. Such a great book. The audio was especially good.

Congrats to my Dallas Theological Seminary student Taylor Standridge whose article on Taylor Swift just got published in Christ and Pop Culture 👏👏👏

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Today MTL magazine published my sidebar about the city of Ephesus at the time of the earliest Christians. Scroll past the article to the DID YOU KNOW? column.

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What beauty did you see today?

Another TGC review of Nobody's Mother.

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Attn writers:

GENEROSITY is the @epatweeter 2024 Cause of the Year. Articles, photos, illustrations published in 2024 on this subject qualify for awards. So pitch your ideas/content.

Flight delay yesterday after EPA gave me more time to read “Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America” by Russell Moore a.co/d/eZbBxFK

Balm. Food. Fire.

The Lausanne report. So interesting.

lausanne.org/report

Congrats to my student Rachel Larsen!
In the @Epatweeter (EPA) HIGHER GOALS AWARDS her team placed fifth in the Interview Article category. Rachel was also the first recipient of EPA’s Emerging Journalist Award.

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Congratulations to Seana Scott !

In the EPA HIGHER GOALS AWARDS
Devotional category:
Fourth Place: Seana Scott, Hope and a Future Christmas Series: Struggling with Trust