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K Karpen discusses the role of women in the early church as highlighted in the Acts of the Apostles.

"Some of the people then joined Paul and became believers, including... a woman named Damaris." - Acts 17:34 Nearly every chapter in the Acts of the Apostles speaks of women disciples and apostles, including this mention of Damaris, who joins Paul as he departs from the city of Athens. By my count, this includes more than a dozen individual women who are lifted up and named, plus another dozen references to groups of women. How did a movement so filled with faithful women become so quickly do...

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