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In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband’s temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society’s most basic...

Anthia’s heart was pounding in fear. So public … everyone will know. So risky. What will happen to him, and to anyone associated with him, at this public shaming of Epaenetus’s old gods? Her thoughts were interrupted by Rhoda, who told the group about a vision that she had been given by Jesus. She had seen a stream that expanded into a large river as smaller streams and tributaries joined it. She laughed joyfully. “We are a tributary, and we have joined the river of the true god’s people.” Then a
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