Women of the Bible – what do they teach us?
In this blog Moyra draws both on her extensive Bible knowledge and her experience of “doing life” with women from the Middle East over a couple of decades. She unearths…
read moreIn this blog Moyra draws both on her extensive Bible knowledge and her experience of “doing life” with women from the Middle East over a couple of decades. She unearths…
read moreThis blog written by our dear sister Moyra, epitomises her style, her practice, her heart and her understanding of Muslim women. As I read this blog 2018 I was being…
read moreMoyra Dale consistently impresses me with her scholarly, thorough understanding of both formal and popular teaching within Islam and this blog is no exception. Moyra’s study and awareness of Middle…
read moreMen are sitting on the floor, plates in front of them. They talk easily among themselves, barely acknowledging the presence of the young unmarried women who move around the group,…
read moreThe stories of two women, and what they teach us. At the heart of the Joseph narrative in Genesis (38, 39) we find the stories of an unexpected pair of…
read moreI have been moved reading the article Figure 1. Tradition would dictate that these women, now impure and therefore a threat to the purity of the community (many carried babies…
read moreThe Hidden Half By Stuart Robinson CHI-Books 2017 Reviewed by Moyra Dale Stuart Robinson states that he spent fourteen years in South Asia and since then has continued to travel…
read more- As women who follow Christ, especially those of us who live in very different cultures and circumstances from where we grew up, what do the women we read of…
read moreConstance Padwick, introducing her classic book Muslim Devotions, commented, “In Islam, as in any other faith, a stranger desiring not to remain a stranger could best feel the pulsing life…
read moreThirteen tables groups each worked on the profile of a refugee at a gathering I was recently attending. Only two of those thirteen groups profiled a woman. This does not…
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