Thanks to Karen Canton

Uncategorized
Lindsay Freeman

I are deeply grateful to have Karen Canton’s artwork throughout these pages. Art for a website is often the hardest part. Not so here. When we first started work on The Scarlet Cord she would ask questions such as, “What were the colors surrounding Eve in the Garden?” “What might Eve have been seeing as she took her morning walk?” Truth be...

Read MoreRead More

Hannah: Striking a bargain with God

Uncategorized
Lindsay Freeman

The story of Hannah has always been one of my favorites in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 1,2). Imagine her joy upon learning she was pregnant after many years of infertility (her husband, Elkanah, was also married to another woman — and of course, the other wife had NO problems getting pregnant). But Hannah does something no other woman...

Read MoreRead More

Eve and Rahab: Dynamic, not boring

Uncategorized
Lindsay Freeman

Bible women seem to find themselves as either all “good” or all “bad,” at least in the eyes of the world. Take Eve, for example. She’s bad. She ate the forbidden fruit. But why? Why would any woman, especially a smart one like Eve, even talk to a serpent? Maybe there’s a few reasons we’re not considering, a few good...

Read MoreRead More

150 years later…

Uncategorized
Lindsay Freeman

I’m currently working with an awesome group of women doing Bible research. Our oldest member is in her ‘70s and our youngest is 15. The younger one came in today and said she’d been through the whole Bible again, on a two-week car trip with her family, and proceeded to add enormously to our work, as she always does. What...

Read MoreRead More