Reflections from the past

I'm in Sydney, Nova Scotia this week at a meeting of the National Federation of Presbyteral Councils. The occasion is the annual National Assembly of the NFPC and we're enjoying the hospitality that Cape Breton Island is so famous for.

During the first day of our meetings, we had the great pleasure to spend some time with Dr. Margaret MacDonald, who shared some thoughts about leadership in the very earliest years of the Church and its development as it is spoken of in the biblical letters of Saint Paul and the Gospels.

In the course of her writings, she also quoted extensively from two particular books which I look forward to reading in more depth. I thought that I would share them with you so that you too can explore them if you wish.

A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity
Carolyn Osiek and Margaret MacDonald
(Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006)
ISBN: 0-8006-3777-1

Stewards, Prophets, Keepers of the Word: Leadership in the Early Church
Ritva H. Williams
(Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2006)
ISBN: 978-1-56563-949-2