What does the Bible have to say?
Women: “First at the Cradle and Last at the Cross” Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957)
Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross.
They had never known a man like this Man—there had never been such another.
A prophet and teacher who never nagged about them, who never flattered or coaxed or patronised;
who never made arch jokes about them,
never treated either as “The women, God help us!” or “The ladies, God bless them!”;
who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension.
who took their questions and arguments seriously,
who never mapped out their sphere for them,
never urged them to be “feminine” or jeered at them for being female;
who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend;
who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious.
Content for the audio taken from ‘The Red Chair’ preaching notes, produced by Restored.
The Red Chair Project was developed in France by domestic abuse campaigner Valerie Duval-Poujol.