@carol_mcclain Poverty defined most of my life. I was the oldest of six children, and still I wore hand-me-downs from the daughter of my mother’s best friend. At dinner, my mother loved to eat the meat off of bones we discarded. Only recently had I learned that meat was her sole portion. My father fished as …[ read more ]

carol_mcclain I’m sure glad Lemuel’s mother isn’t my mother-in-law. She asked her son this question in Proverbs 31 verse 10: Who can find a virtuous wife? I’ll rephrase for the purposes of this blog–are you a virtuous wife? Wait-wait. Here’s the answer. No one Don’t believe me. Take this quiz and see how you match up …[ read more ]

@carol_mcclai n Over the past few months, we’ve looked at four mighty women in Jesus’s genealogy. All lived sinful or abused or despised lives. Despite their reputations and upbringing, each woman defied society’s definition of her life and left a legacy for Christ. Who are you? Tamar–Jacob believed she killed his sons. He deceived Tamar when …[ read more ]

@carol_mcclain Little is known for certain about Bathsheba  (the fourth woman mentioned in Jesus’s genealogy)and her relationship with King David. I highly recommend reading the Jewish Women’s Archive for a Jewish perspective on this complicated woman. For certain, we know: She was beautiful (1 Sam. 11:2) Her father and husband were elite members of David’s vanguard. (2 …[ read more ]

@carol_mcclain Recently I moved from northern New York, from a rural community closer to Montreal than any US city. Tennessee offered a vastly different world, and more than the differences I found here, I was a newcomer. Friend groups had been established, and being an introvert, working my way into them proved difficult. I was a …[ read more ]