num_pages: 196
description: Women in the Biblesome of their names we know others we've only heard and others are tragically unnamed. Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and invites us to see them not as players in a man's storyas victims or temptersnor as morality archetypes teaching us to be better wives and mothers but as fierce foremothers of the faith. These women's stories are messy challenging and beautiful.Fierce will provoke you open up possibilities for you invite you to imagine the inner lives of other women even offend you at times like the prophets did. Although separated by centuries and cultures we aren't so different from these women; we share their desires and abilities. We are all part of the story that God is telling.We allmen and womencan be as fierce as these women of the Bible. Sometimes our ferocity is almost invisible but it is not extinguished. When we read their stories we can see not only their particular fearsome lives but also our own.
language: English
title: Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation
publisher: Fortress Press