Bex Canner
Bex Canner is a theology student, a medical doctor practicing family medicine, an artist, and a survivor of a strict Plymouth Brethren upbringing. Canner has a resounding interest in the Bible and especially in up-ending the long-abiding tendency by scholars toward heteronormative patriarchal interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures, taking a fresh approach to the text and coaxing from it surprising messages of love, healing, and redemption. Canner identifies as non-binary and queer. They live on the windswept south coast of Wellington, New Zealand with their family and three cats.
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Women’s Voices Silenced
"We can celebrate an unbroken succession of female prophets and preachers from Ammia of Philadelphia, Perpetua, and Hildegard of Bingen to today. They model courage and faith in God’s calling to teach, preach, and lead, despite how the church has repeatedly created new rules to silence women."
