A timely and compelling new look at three key women in the biblical narrative 
Among the mostly male-dominated narratives in Scripture, the stories of women can be game-changing. In this book Debbie Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian matriarch)—and finds in them unexpected and inviting new ways of navigating faith and life. 
As she sets out to explore these biblical characters who live and move in places and ways outside of the strict boundaries of tradition, Blue encounters many real life characters who challenge her expectations and renew her hope—a Muslim tattoo artist, a Saudi Arabian sculptor, a rabbi in a Darth Vader costume, Aztec dancers at a feast of Guadalupe, an Islamic feminist scholar, and more.
Readers who embark with Blue on the sometimes unorthodox, subversive paths of these curious and lively figures will be led to envision more expansive and hopeful possibilities for faith, human connection, and love in our divided, violent world.

Consider the Women: A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible

History

Blue, Debbie

World

Eerdmans

From biblical times to today, people have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to our own lives in the process. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. They also challenge, offend, devour, and fight. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—and provide us with profound lessons about humanity, faith, and God's mysterious grace.

Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Many Christians sense that their encounters with the Bible are supposed to be deep, life-forming, and powerful, but that isn't always the case. They may be overly familiar with the text to the point of finding it predictable, or they may be disillusioned with the church. Too often, and for a variety of reasons, believers make the Bible an idol and unwittingly turn the Word into stone. Author and pastor Debbie Blue helps readers discover how to turn the stone back into living Word. She first gives general guidelines for letting the Bible breathe, then looks at the Bible's main themes as dynamically encouraging and challenging. Blue frees believers from dumbed-down spirituality as she reveals that the Word is alive and thrilling.

From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again

Brazos Press

From biblical times to today, people have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to our own lives in the process.   From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. They also challenge, offend, devour, and fight.   Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—and provide us with profound lessons about humanity, faith, and God's mysterious grace.

MUJERES QUE ROMPEN REGLAS, Y SE LAS ARREGLAN PARA SALIR A LA LUZ. PROVOCADORA, ÍNTIMA, FURIOSA Y AMANTE; DEBBIE LE PONE VOZ A ESTAS MUJERES MIENTRAS PATEA EL TABLERO DEL PATRIARCADO BIBLIOCENTRISTA. "Las palabras de los sabios son como aguijones", advirtió el predicador de la antigüedad. Palabras pronunciadas que no son tan apacibles como uno podría esperar. Las personas sabias hablan y de inmediato se estimula la acción. O puede ser también que las comunidades actúan y las maestras y los maestros capturan la sabiduría escondida. Palabra y acción, acción que puede no ser placentera. Y no podría serla pues es Debbie Blue quien pronuncia esas palabras desde su tarea como predicadora, como pastora fundadora de House of Mercy, su comunidad de fe en St. Paul, Minnesota. Debbie dio un paso más, precisamente en la línea del predicador de antaño. Ella se dio a la tarea de recopilar sus dichos, sus sermones, y como resultado tienes este libro en tus manos. De este libro podemos decir, sin temor a equivocarnos, que su contenido es "como clavos hincados". Aguijones, clavos... no estamos ante un imaginario pacífico. Menos aún si lo que tenemos aquí son 15 preguntas de calibre que se le plantean al patriarcado. Este libro es una colección de 15 sermones que giran en torno a las mujeres. "Las mujeres en la Biblia rompen un montón de reglas, se plantan en resistencia al imperio, desobedecen normas culturales, crean problemas supremamente buenos (y, a veces, no tan buenos). Ellas son humanas, genuinamente humanas. Son mujeres que nos permiten capturar atisbos de posibilidades de transformación (no siempre, pero sí con frecuencia). Nos encontramos hoy por hoy en un tiempo y en un lugar en la historia de este mundo en el que necesitamos oír sus historias". HAY UNA HISTORIA OCULTA TRAS EL RELATO DOMINANTE, PATRIARCAL DE LA FE CRISTIANA. ES LA HISTORIA DE LAS MUJERES, DE SU DIOS, DE SU RESISTENCIA. Debbie Blue, pastora, predicadora y autora, en Magníficat: Un Dios que nunca dejó de considerar a las mujeres, nos desafía a esas "posibilidades de transformación" fiel a su estilo. Ella y las mujeres en estas historias, sus recursividades, bailes, alegría de vivir, irreverencias, solidaridades, dolores, risas y rabias nos recuerdan de manera constante que el ordenamiento opresor actual no es más que "patriarcado en harapos".

Magníficat: Un Dios que nunca dejó de considerar a las mujeres (Spanish Edition)

Juanuno1 Ediciones

WOMEN THAT BREAK THE RULE RULES AND MAKE THEMSELVES VISIBLE. 
THOUGHT AND ACTION PROVOKING. INTIMATE, FURIOUS AND LOVING, DEBBIE BLUE GIVES VOICE TO THE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE AS TOGETHER THEY TURN THE TABLE OF PATRIARCHY.\n"The sayings of the wise are like goads," warned a preacher of old: words that are not as restful as one might expect. The wise speak and are goaded into action. Or perhaps the community works and the wise merely capture its hidden wisdom -words and deeds that can be more disruptive at times than polite. Debbie Blue attempts to tap into this spirit as she develops her preaching ministry as a founding pastor of House of Mercy, in St Paul, Minnesota. 
Debbie took a step further along the line of the preacher of old. She collected her sermons, and as a result you have this book in your hand. Its contents are piercing as nails sometimes: 
Goads that are unsettling more than complacent when it comes to questioning patriarchy. This is a collection of fifteen sermons that revolve around women. "The women in the Bible break a lot of rules, resist empire, disobey the cultural norms, cause good trouble (and sometimes not such good trouble). They are fully human. They help us glimpse the possibility of transformation (not always, but often). I think we are at a time and place in the life of the world where we need to hear their stories."\nTHERE IS A STORY BEHIND THE REIGNING, PATRIARCHAL CHRISTIAN NARRATIVE. 
IT IS THE STORY OF WOMEN, THEIR GOD, THEIR RESISTANCE\nTrue to her style, pastor, preacher and author Debbie Blue, in Magnificat: A God Who Never Stopped Considering Women, spurs us on to that "possibility of transformation". She and the women in the stories with their resourcefulness, dancing, joie de vivre, irreverence, solidarity, pain, laughter and anger, constantly reminds us that God loves us and means to set us free.

Magnificat: A God Who Never Stopped Considering Women

Juanuno1 Books

Provocador, sensual, intuitivo y ortodoxo.Una combinaci n fascinante. En este libro, Debbie Blue se mete en los huecos de los evangelios, buscando relaciones contextuales de la historia detr s de la gran historia. All donde encuentra una fisura, ella agrega con sutileza y determinaci n una cu a, afirm ndose en el evangelio, permitiendo que brote agua nueva. Una colecci n de predicaciones -como resurrecciones- vigorosamente imaginativas de la vida y los tiempos de Jes s, donde el cuerpo existe y tiene todos los sentidos atentos a percibir, mientras la cabeza juega un papel secundario con respecto al coraz n, el amor es palpable, los ltimos son los primeros, la fe se transita en harapos. Si la Biblia se lee como relatos de moralidad, p lidos y nada sorprendentes, seguramente el texto solo nos empuje en direcci n a lo antisensual y lo abstracto. Pero recuperar el mensaje del Dios Encarnado, la vida de Jes s, es ir siempre en el sentido contrario: Dios se hace verdaderamente humano en el vientre de Mar a y nace en el mundo a trav s del canal de parto. Porque Dios intenta colarse en nuestras vidas, se empe a en entrar una y otra y otra vez en nuestro mundo, aunque no lo notemos. Esa es la gran sospecha de Debbie Blue, y de eso trata este libro. ---* Este libro es la traducci n al espa ol de Sensual Orthodoxy *Pr logo a la edici n en espa ol de la Rev. Dra. Mercedes L. Garc a Bachmann.

Ortodoxia Sensual: Recuperando el Mensaje del Dios Encarnado (Spanish Edition)

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Consider the Women: A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible

Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible

From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again

Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible

Magníficat: Un Dios que nunca dejó de considerar a las mujeres (Spanish Edition)

Magnificat: A God Who Never Stopped Considering Women

Ortodoxia Sensual: Recuperando el Mensaje del Dios Encarnado (Spanish Edition)