[Magdalen] Letters after my name

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

There have been remarkable women in my life, and I've always felt
influenced by them.

At seminary, I discovered, in a closer reading of scripture, that virtually
every important event was guided or precipitated by a woman. Every one.
This suggests that the writer(s) viewed women as profoundly powerful.
Harold Bloom is convinced that J was a female member of the Judahite court
just after the break-up of Israel. I kind of think the view of those
writers (and most likely the Great Redactor especially) was patriarchal,
but with a real fear of the woman. How else explain how almost every branch
in the currents of history turns on the actions of a woman? We fear those
whom we have wronged.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> For years I have sported the letters ObJN after my name.  It signifies that
> I am an oblate of the Order of Julian.  Now I am going to use SSH
> occasionally.  I am a member of a small group (4 women).  We are reading
> Bible Women by Lindsay Hardin Freeman.  The book catalogs and analyzes all
> the words spoken by women in the Bible.  We have been introduces to a few
> women new to us, including the woman who ate her son and the mother of
> Jabaez.  But we were most captivated by Huldah, a prophet from Jerusalem.
> To she represents women who speak their minds.   So we have become the
> Sisters of Saint Huldah.
>
> --
> Judy Fleener, ObJN
> Western Michigan
>