Female Disciples

Female Disciples: Stories to Shatter the Heart of Stone and Awaken the Heart of Flesh

Starts: Sunday 29th of November, 8 pm, £55 

10-Week Series. Ten hour-long Live and Recorded Zoom Calls thar are yours to keep 

This winter, I want to gather around the stories of women whose devotion to Christ entered the very substance of their lives: their choices, their relationships, their resources, and the courage with which they faced suffering. I want us to feel the force of that devotion and allow it to ask something of us.

Across nine gatherings, we will encounter Mary Magdalene hearing Christ speak her name, Thecla and the lioness who defends her, Perpetua reaching down to help Felicity stand, and Macrina gathering abandoned children into her care. Drawing from the biblical Gospels, early Christian accounts, and ancient sacred storytelling, we will listen for the faith that moves through these narratives, the love that becomes a hand extended, a home opened, a life given to the care of others.

I am offering these evenings because I feel a deep hunger for stories that restore our courage and reach beneath our weariness. There is something profoundly stirring about allowing another woman’s witness to come close enough to touch our own life.

My prayer is that we leave these gatherings more willing to love, more courageous in our faith, and more responsive to the suffering and beauty around us. That the stories stay with us, and begin to find expression through our own hands.

 

• Joanna
• Mary Magdalene
• Thecla
• Mariamne
• Perpetua
• Felicity
• Macrina
• Tabitha — also called Dorcas
• Lydia
• Susanna 

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