The female body is a beautiful part of God’s design. Many in the Church may not feel comfortable thinking about how the menstrual cycle demonstrates this and without taking a careful look at the whole of God’s word, we can miss what he has to teach us through the cycles of women.
To do that, we must look back to the ancient laws and cultural views that shaped how women — and their menstrual cycles — were perceived.
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Catholics Urge Wider Latin Mass Access After SSPX Schism — July 31: Some traditionalist Catholics are , arguing that faithful access within the Church could keep worshippers from turning to breakaway groups. The appeal follows the Society of St. Pius X’s unauthorized consecration of four bishops on July 1, which prompted the Vatican to excommunicate the group's clergy. Supporters distinguish devotion to the older liturgy from rejecting papal authority. (RNS)
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Rare Ancient Figurine Mold Found in Jerusalem — July 31: Archaeologists have uncovered Jerusalem’s , enigmatic household objects from approximately 800-500 BC Judah. Found at the Tower of David, the 2,500-year-old clay mold formed only the figurine’s face; artisans later attached the head by hand, then fired and painted it. More than 500 of these figurines have been found in Jerusalem, but scholars continue to debate various theories regarding their purpose. (Biblical Archaeology Society)
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Three Common Mistakes in Reading Religion Data, From Ryan Burge — August 1: First, than headlines suggest, typically about 2.6 points annually. Second, personal experience can exaggerate the influence of specialized theological debates like dispensationalism. And third, Americans wildly overestimate small religious groups, guessing that Jews and Muslims constitute 25% and 20% of the population when the actual shares are about 1.5% and 1%, respectively. (Religion Unplugged)
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Stillness makes many of us uncomfortable. To the optimization-minded, the pause of sleep can feel intrusive. We don’t like to be forced to stop.
Yet God — who certainly had no need to stop — stopped. He had limitless capacity to keep going, doing, and creating, endlessly tinkering like an artist with an infinite canvas and infinite ideas. But he did stop. Genesis 2:2–3 makes this clear by mentioning no less than three times that God did not work on the seventh day.
Clearly this is an important idea. But why? What does it mean that God rested from his work? God doesn’t sleep or grow weary (Isa. 40:28). He doesn’t need anything, including rest. And yet Genesis 2 is clear. God chooses rest. How are we to understand the meaning of this divine seventh-day rest?
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In Genesis 3, although God has spoken, the Dragon-snake seems to have won the day — temporarily at least. The Maker of Days, the Ancient One Himself, cannot ever be outdone, for the Bible is His story and will be written and played out only as He decides.
One cannot forget that in Genesis 3:15, He set things in order for the rest of the story by stating His thesis directly to the Dragon-snake’s face, while Adam and Eve are hiding shamefully in the bushes.
All of the great stories have a thesis, which simply put, is a central claim or argument that an author puts forward in an essay, paper, or story, then attempts to prove it throughout the body of his work. I believe that, in the greatest of all stories, the Bible, God has done this emphatically.
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Here’s your Bible Gateway verse-of-the-day calendar for the month of August! Click each link to read the verse in your preferred translation — or scroll to the bottom to download the image (or PDF) of all verse references.
Plus — a closer look at one of this month's verses, Psalm 119:130, using the Believer's Bible Commentary in Bible Gateway Plus. Does real understanding of the Bible belong only to experts and scholars?
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