You Tube Theology

Dr. Nijay Gupta (https://beyondordinarywomen.org/video-contributors/#Nijay)

Dr. Kelley Mathews (https://beyondordinarywomen.org/video-contributors/#Kelley)

Dr. Nijay Gupta, author of Tell Her Story (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1514000741/) , joins BOW Team Member Kelley Mathews in this fascinating discussion of persecuted women in the early church.

What can we learn from their stories? How do their stories encourage our faith and our own courage? What can we learn from them? What do we miss when we fail to study them?

These women’s stories provide models for us today to stand up for Christ, to know that he is better than anything that comes into our lives, and to be willing to cling to him no matter what happens to us or our country in the future.

Recommended resources

• By Dr. Gupta  Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1514000741/)

• Redeeming Eden: How Women in the Bible Advance the Story of Salvation (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310169305/) by Ingrid Faro and Joyce Koo Dalrymple

• nijaykgupta.substack.com (https://nijaykgupta.substack.com)

• Christianity Today article by Dr. Gupta, “Junia, the Female Apostle Imprisoned for the Gospel” (https://www.christianitytoday.com/2023/03/junia-female-apostle-paul-fellow-prisoner-preaching-gospel/)

This episode is available on video (https://vimeo.com/1128367554) if you prefer watching.

Timestamps:

00:22 Introductions

01:40 Junia (Romans 16:7) and the conditions in Roman prisons, especially for women

13:25 What egregious activities would put a woman in prison?

17:17 Perpetua, whose diary provides great information about imprisonment, and Felicity, her slave girl

28:31 Blandina’s story

29:30 Physical suffering in the Scriptures

37:26 Other resources