Protecting Women’s Rights Means Respecting Her Religion
According to the Pew Research Center, 83.4 percent of women around the world are affiliated with a religious tradition. This figure alone implies the importance of religious freedom for women,…
Stories Told and Untold: An Interview With Heather Farrell, Author of Women in the Scriptures
In November 2017 a book called Walking with the Women of the Old Testament was published by Cedar Fort, an independent small press publisher in Utah. Almost immediately the book…
Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi, A Woman Who Speaks and Acts with Integrity
I met Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi, on my first day at the Conference on the Status of Women, at the UN this year. Her first name, Adedayo, meaning “the crown that brings…
Just One Thing
Our internal compass doesn’t require handbooks and hours of training to operate. We needn’t navigate difficult trails. In fact, we may become lost in life if we try to take…
Meeting Drought With Abundance Part 1
June 28, 2018 Yesterday I woke up in the middle of the night. Insomnia. I was awake and worrying about drought. The local water board asked all of the church…
Religious Freedom and Personal Faith
We believe in God, and our faith in a higher power grounds us in hope for a better world. We understand that our faith allows us the internal power and…
January 2018 Board Message
Big Ocean Women are women of faith. This foundational identity not only unites us with other people of faith, but it connects us to a higher power. This connection gives…
Megan Fights Childhood Cancer for Her Kid and Everyone Else’s
Megan Gibson lobbied in Washington for childhood cancer funding, raised over $1,000 making and selling goodies for a young cancer victim, and rallied people to donate blood. She also quietly…