Dr. Marina Hofman, President of Partners for Family Values and author of Women in the Bible: Small Group Bible Study, and Mercedes Schlapp talk about the place of faith and faith-filled people in America today.
As young people increasingly suffer from depression, anxiety, and feelings of isolation and as the opposition to people of faith grows, the influence of faith becomes all that more important. Hofman understood this firsthand. After a traumatic experience and after experiencing feelings of depression and isolation during the pandemic, she started a small discussion group for Christian women, and when the monkeypox scare threatened to shut down here group, she became more determined than ever to maintain the community she had created of fellow Christians.
On the heightened importance of faith right now, Hofman says, “These are dark times. These are hard times. I don’t what hope there could be if its not our hope in the Lord that the Lord enables us to make a difference and goes before us.”
Hofman’s book is meant to present the stories of brave women in the Bible, such as that of the midwives in Egypt as told in Exodus, as inspiration for women today to holdfast to their faith in the midst of trials and tribulations.
“We know that what we believe is the right decision, and these forces around us are telling us to go against our values. So, observing how they stand up for what’s right and how God opens amazing doors and blesses them is an encouragement to women of faith today,” Hofman explains.
She encourages Christian women today to find the women in the Bible a source of inspiration to be a positive force in their families and workplaces.
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