Epiphany 5B
Mark 1:29-39 So today we have week two of our year-long occasional series on women in leadership in the church, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Those of you who were here on Gaudete Sunday in December will remember that I told you that this year, 2024 marks the 50 th anniversary of the first ordinations of women to the Episcopal priesthood. So in honor of this milestone, I have decided that this is a good year to take some time to examine the role of women in the bible and in the church. So every time this year we come across a woman in our lectionary, we are going to stop, drop everything and take a really good close look at her. And I bet that we are going to discover some things that we have forgotten, over looked or never really noticed before. Because while we may be a lot more visible now, women have in fact been leading the church all along. And so we begin today with Peter’s mother in law. A woman so easily overlooked th...