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		<title>Euodia and Syntyche: Church Leaders at Philippi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko In the current discussions about the roles of women in the Church, Phoebe, Junia and Priscilla have received a great deal of attention.  These three women are mentioned in the New Testament as being involved in significant Christian ministry.  Much of the discussion surrounding these women concerns identifying their actual ministries, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty, Marriage Motherhood and Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Women in the Old Testament What do these Old Testament women all have in common? The daughters of humans (Gen 6:2), Sarah (Gen 12:11,14), Rebekah (Gen 24:16), Rachel (Gen 29:17), Bathsheba (2 Sam 11:2), Tamar (2 Sam 13:1; 14:27), Esther (Esth 2:7) and Job’s daughters (Job 42:15). All these OT women, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the &#8220;Weaker Sex&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Many Christians believe that only men can be church leaders.  They believe that women are not made for leadership and they need to be protected from the difficulties and challenges that can arise in leadership.  In this context a reader recently wrote to me saying: “This is not to place women lower in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Women in the New Testament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Priscilla, the Artisan I was chatting with a group of people the other day and, as part of a conversation, my friend “Norman” mentioned that the apostle Paul, and a man named Aquila, were tentmakers by trade.  I piped in and said that Priscilla, Aquila’s wife, was also a tentmaker.  Norman looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it only men who can represent Jesus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Some Christians believe that, because Jesus was (and is) a man, only men can represent Jesus.  Many of these same Christians also believe that church leaders somehow represent Jesus to the congregation; and so, because Jesus was male, women cannot be church leaders.  This article looks at some of the flaws in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cardology (7): The Persian Astronomers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Please read the very short introduction first. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?  We saw his star in the east (or, when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cardology (6): The Virgin Mary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Please read the short introduction first. The Christmas story is full of interesting characters: angels from Heaven, shepherds of the Temple flocks and astrologers from Persia.  At the centre of these characters is the figure of Mary.[1] God chose to bring his Messiah into the world as a human baby,[2] and he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cardology (5): Jesus&#8217; Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Please read the short introduction first. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, “Do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cardology (4): Born in a Barn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Please read the short Introduction first. While they were there [in Bethlehem], the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.  She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger [phatne], because there was no guest room [kataluma] available for them.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cardology (3): From Nazareth to Bethlehem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marg Mowczko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Mowczko Please read the short Introduction here. In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register.  So Joseph also went [...]]]></description>
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