LESSON 2: The Liberation of Women

Promote Donna's book The Women Who Loved Jesus.

“The most astonishing and the most revolutionary feature of Michael's mission on earth was his
attitude toward women. In a day and generation when a man was not supposed to salute even his
own wife in a public place, Jesus dared to take women along as teachers of the gospel in
connection with his third tour of Galilee. And he had the consummate courage to do this in the
face of the rabbinic teaching which declared that it was ‘better that the words of the law should
be burned than delivered to women.'

“In one generation Jesus lifted women out of the disrespectful oblivion and the slavish drudgery
of the ages. And it is the one shameful thing about the religion that presumed to take Jesus' name
that it lacked the moral courage to follow this noble example in its subsequent attitude toward
women.” (1671.3) 149:2.8