![]() ![]() For me, that makes scripture even more authentic.” Sometimes with faith, sometimes with very little faith. “They are not that different, emotionally, from us. “These are ordinary people,” says Ann Spangler, one of the authors of the devotional, Women of the Bible. Perhaps it is the complexity of these women that draw us to them and makes us want to learn more. In the stories of women in the Bible, we can find courage, strength, and resilience-but also gentle kindness and humility. “I think they have a lot to share with us about what it means to believe, what it means to have faith,” Reverence Freeman told Huffington Post. Yet, consider how powerful those words can be. And in total women only speak 14,056 words. ![]() ![]() They discovered that of the 93 women in the Bible, only 49 have names. Reverend Lindsay Hardin Freeman from Excelsior, Minnesota, led a study that counted every single word spoken by a woman in the Bible. However, you might be surprised just how little they actually speak. From Eve to Esther to Mary of Nazareth, many women in the Bible have powerful stories. ![]()
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