Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Women's work. It is what we're talking about in today's episode. What do you think of when you

hear women's work? Do you think of cleaning the house, cooking, maybe you think of being a lawyer

or a doctor or working in communications? Today, women's work can look all of these ways.

We have so much access and freedom in today's Western society to support our families,

to support ourselves, to achieve great things with our talents and our skills. But has it always

been the case? I think we know the answer to that. The answer is no. And even today, there are

many women who aren't able to work as freely as we can, aren't as mobile and society or don't

have the kind of privileges and rights we have to work in almost any industry.

In today's episode, I want to delve into what scripture says about women's work,

because over the course of history, the church has not always handled this well. And we tend to

get mixed up in understanding what part of our work is biblical and what part of our approach to

that is cultural. For instance, when I just said women's work, the thoughts that popped into your

mind are probably the result of your upbringing, your church culture, your ethnicity, the city you

live in. All of those are factors in the thought and response you had to the term women's work.

And interestingly, over the course of history, the church and Christians have talked about women's

work in terms that are often a reflection of their culture and not a reflection of scripture's

teaching. And so we're going to look at quite a few passages today, because as always, we want to

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