Three voices are fighting to name you right now.

Culture say you're undefined - a blank slate with no fixed identity. Complementarianism, particularly within the Southern Baptist Convention, says you're narrowly defined; restricted to roles that shrink what God actually called you to. And estrangement - when your own child stops calling, stops answering, walks away - whispers the cruelest definition of all: You are not wanted. Your are not a mother. You are what they left behind.

None of them get the final word.

In this episode of Hart to Heart, I walk through the women the church rarely talks about - Deborah, who led Israel as prophet and judge with full authority over men and women. The Proverbs 31 woman, who was far more than a domestic ideal - a businesswoman, a leader, a teacher. Mary Magdalene, Priscilla, Phoebe - women of God trusted with His work when human systems wouldn't have. The we look at what happened when those human systems replaced biblical truth; how 1 Timothy 2 got stripped of its context, how the "narcissist" label got weaponized against parents, and why telling women they cannot use their God-given gifts doesn't just limit them - it limits the Great Commission and the Kingdom of God.

Culture cannot define you. Complementarianism cannot shrink you. Estrangement cannot erase you.

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