Women in the Gospel of Luke

Women play such a great role in the gospel of Luke, which is again, as you said, so heartening and so encouraging. Jesus was interested in going to those people who would not be normally comfortable or wouldn't be necessarily accepted when it came to the normal religious practices. I think all of us could say one time or another, we were on the fringe, you know, I was on the outside kind of looking in.Luke's a good gospel because you've got people who are like your son, like your daughter, like Zacchaeus and Good Samaritan, prodigal son. It's a place of hope for people who have sons and daughters who are far away from