Which biblical women could be our role models? And what do they have to teach us about struggling against convention to follow a call? Find out by reading the full text of this article in the March/April 2007 issue of Horizons!
Unconventional Grace:
Pushing Aside Convention for God's Will
by Bridgett A. Green
Growing up and imagining myself as an adult in my community and in the church, I looked to the women around me for guidance. Schoolteachers, Sunday school teachers and my chaplain at Davidson College, my alma mater, all were my role models. As I absorbed their lessons, listened to their stories and observed their lives, I learned and was inspired. Role models give us inspiration to create, struggle and dream. They also open doors to worlds we do not know exist, and many of them act so that those worlds do exist.
Bridgett Green serves as associate for Racial Ethnic Young Women Together (REYWT) for the PC(USA) General Assembly Council.
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