If we want to stand on the steadfast knowledge that the gospel of jesus

proclaims one-ness - absolute inclusion, unity and justice for all - we

HAVE to know what the Bible has to say about it. Hagar (slave, foreign,

female) became the very first theologian in the story of god’s people…

Every single martriarch (Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel) was met in her

deepest need, by a God who showed them he was different: by blessing her,

by including her in the story (a culturally unheard of thing at the time)

and by saying, in the context of desperate need: I remember you. They may

have been read to us otherwise. But THIS is what they’re about.