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Borrowed from Original Post Originally posted at enCourage on October 8, 2020. Click here to see original post and other edifying articles. My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.  The Apostle Paul in Galatians 4:19 Any woman who has given birth to a child knows the pain of childbirth. With my first child, I was obliviously idealistic about what childbirth would be like. Other women might have tried to explain it to me, but nothing could have prepared me for the experience of labor. Giving birth to a child is a complete investment of oneself— body and soul. The pains of childbirth are, of course, a part of the curse. What is true on a physical level about childbirth, is also true on a spiritual level about the labor of love called missions. The gospel worker must endure hardship in the process of watching and participating in the birth of spiritual offspring. The Pains of M...

Joyfully Spreading the Word: Sharing the Good News of Jesus Edited by Kathleen Nielson , Gloria Furman , Contributions by Shar Bell, Rosaria Butterfield , Gloria Furman , Camille Hallstrom, Megan Hill , Happy Khambule , Jamie R. Love , Rebecca Manley Pippert , Eowyn Stoddard You can be a part of the spread of the gospel in the world.  Here are theological reflections and real stories from women from across the world who are eagerly sharing the good news of Jesus wherever God has placed them—showing us just how possible it is to follow Jesus’s call to evangelism in our ordinary, everyday lives. I enjoyed writing a chapter on mercy ministry and how it connects to proclamation ministry. I won't say more...you'll have to get the book! Editors: Kathleen Nielson (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is an author and speaker who loves working with women in studying the Scriptures. After directing the Gospel Coalition’s women’s initiativ...

Archetypes, born in ancient Pagan cultures, were understood as universal abstractions that provided a general common understanding to an otherwise diverse fabric of life and particular application of gendered reality. The association of the woman with the earth and fertility, for example, is an ancient archetype common across cultures. Or take the 3 rd century BC Asian Yin and Yang principle, for example. It was an archetype for understanding the inter-connectedness and interdependence of the sexes. Incorporated as a way of explaining the deep psychology of gender, Carl Jung later called them primordial images, shared in a collective subconscious. The philosophical “archetypical” thinking of Plato was a further and significant development in the history of philosophy. Though he may not have called them “archetypes,” his concept of “ideas” or perfect forms of things was on a philosophical level what archetypes are on a psychological level. Kant, much later, but still building on ...