Female leads: Richard Stewart investigates the women who knew Jesus
‘That probably surprised the men present.’
I once felt moved in Meeting for Worship to give ministry that included a reading of the first nine verses of John’s Gospel. After an appropriate time for reflection I was surprised when a fellow member stood up and said the problem with the Bible was its masculine domination. Actual masculine pronouns were quoted to support this belief. I didn’t respond, as ministry should never degenerate into a debating session. I didn’t follow it up later during refreshments either, perhaps because I knew the person concerned was a nontheist. I had thought that the passage was probably the one most likely to resonate with nontheists, since it includes the phrase ‘that was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world’; this could have been the origin of ‘the light that is in us all’ from Advices & queries 5.
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