The Women in the Bible We Forget to Talk About

I'll jump in real quick, just a little bit of background on the book.

So I wrote a book a handful of years ago called Tell Her Story about women leaders in the early church.

And I was at like a book launch event and there was a mother that came up to me and with her teenage daughter and she said, my daughter and I read your book.

We loved it.

And then she said, I wish I had something for our younger, for my younger kids.

And that kind of stuck in my head.

And Caitlin, there's some really simple things involved in this.

Like sometimes we're reading the Bible, you don't know if a name is the name of a boy or a girl.

So for example, and it's not intuitive, like in some languages, it'll end in an A or something.

But with the Bible, it's not always clear like Persis or Damaris.

You don't always know like Tryphena, Tryphosa.

You have all these folks, Euodia and Syntyche.

So just to be able to say, oh my gosh, Like there are a lot more women in the Bible doing various things that I originally thought.

I went to my publisher, University Press.

I said, can we do anything about this? And they connected me to the youth kids division.

And the first thing I thought was I got Carmen involved in this because she'll just hit it out of the park.

But the short answer I'll give is yes.

There are stereotypes that get passed on in churches a lot about where women are found and what they're found doing.

And let me just say, I make dinner for our family.

Every night I make about 300 dinners a year.

I love cooking.

So there's nothing wrong with being at home doing work at home.

I love it.

I absolutely love picking up my kids, taking them to sports, whatever.

But women are out there doing a ton of different things, a variety of different activities.