The Importance of Women in the Bible

"I'm going to fight this bad idea about women because I see how it hurts real women," Christine de Pison wrote. "It's remarkable because she's doing it in just as patriarchal an age as we are today." Hildegarda Bingen was a preacher and poet who believed that men and women reflect the image of God, says Anne Lamott. In medieval Christianity, there were opportunities for female writers but they didn't get published until after the Protestant Reformation.