Listen to how Dr. Katie McCoy introduced her topic to women attending her workshop at a recent

Jewelman conference.

Well, hello, ladies.

Thank you for being brave enough to come to the session where we're going to talk about what

the Bible says about periods.

Oh, you just think I'm joking. We are going there. Because the truth is, all of God's word expresses God's character, especially God's law.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Lies, Women Believe in the

truth that sets them free. For February 26, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh.

Sometimes people get hung up on passages in the Old Testament that seem confusing or mean.

Is the Bible demeaning to women?

Our laws about menstruation or childbirth rooted in sexism and misogyny.

That's some of what we'll discuss today.

But to lay the foundation and ground us in scripture, here's Nancy with a key reminder.

Men and women are both created in the image of God and are equal in value and dignity.

That's an important thing for us to affirm because there are many who say that those of us who believe in biblical womanhood are saying things that we aren't saying.

We have to start by affirming equality created in the image of God, equal in value and dignity.

Let me just read to you what is a very familiar paragraph from Genesis 1,

but such a beautiful one and one that we need to reflect on and revel in. Then God said,

let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the

sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping

thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God,

he created him. Male and female, he created them. And God blessed them. Male and female, both created in the image of God,

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