International Women’s Day
This Sunday 8th March is International Women’s Day so here is Heather MacKean’s icon of the women in the New Testament. It depicts 58 women including the very first female followers of Jesus in the gospels (Joanna, Salome, Mary, etc) as well as preachers and church leaders like Junia, Thekla, Syntyche, and Euodia. When she began the work MacKean thought there might be a dozen women in the New Testament but the more she read the more she realised there are hundreds of women doing the work of the apostles, hosting home churches, caring for the poor, becoming unmercenary healers, suffering martyrdom, and preaching the good news.
