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“Moving toward my second decade of teaching college students, more than half of whom grow up in a church, of this I am certain: churches don’t talk about the women of the Bible. Of Mary mother of Jesus they have heard, and even then not all of what they have heard is accurate. But of the other woman saints of the Bible, including Miriam, the prophetic national music director, or Esther, the dancing queen, or Phoebe, the benefactor of Paul’s missions, or Priscilla, the teacher, they’ve heard almost nothing.”
That paragraph, from the introduction of Scot McKnight’s new ebook “Junia Is Not Alone”, sets the stage for the passionate and sound call for the church to remember the women to whom we owe so much. With prophetic clarity, Scot shows how- in the case of Junia (if you don’t know who she is, all the more reason to buy this book)- the church has explicitly silenced their voices, erasing their memory and killing their legacy.
The book goes on to call us back together to a celebration and an honouring of these women. McKnight offers us challenges in the face of the status quo and invites us to dare to tell the real story of God in all its honest beauty. It is an invitation that is hard to resist.
This essay length ebook is well worth the $2.99- it is worth far more than that! If you don’t own a Kindle, then simply download the free Kindle reader for your computer or smartphone. Then buy this book. This is a worthy addition to the writings of Scot McKnight, one that you will not want to miss.
