Once at a church in New England, I asked a group of deaf adults: “Heart: what mean?” I asked this question after a Sunday school lesson in which the word heart was signed often. For them to have understood the lesson, understanding the spiritual dynamic of the...
Displaying Your Gender (part 2 of 2) “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.” —I Corinthians 11:14-15 ...
Displaying Your Gender (part 1 of 2) “Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.” —Exodus 20:26 “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with...
Playing Your Role (part 2 of 2) “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”—Genesis 3:16 “Wives, submit...
Playing Your Role (part 1 of 2) “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree… cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life… In the sweat of thy...
