Two Women by the River
For the session to be discussed on July 26, 2026
Acts 16:11–18
David Cassady
Daniel Glaze
Jaye Peabody Smith
David Adams
In Acts 16 we meet two women bound by the same economy: Lydia, a wealthy dealer in purple whose heart God opens, and an unnamed enslaved girl whose truth-telling threatens her owners’ profits. We marvel at the women gathering by the river to make holy space, yet we’re haunted that Lydia gets a name, a home, a church—while the freed girl simply vanishes. We ask: room for whom?
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