is clarion-clear. Women are called to give all of themselves—gifts, talents, training, intelligence, and aptitude—to his service. It is our obligation to wrestle with the apparently contradictory texts which act as a deterrent and to find an appropriate resolution. Perhaps the most difficult of the perplexities attendant on this passage is verse 15, “she shall be saved by childbearing.” Here the problems are both practical and theological. At the practical level,