Five Questions: Biblical Stories Told Through Song

Jesus loved women.

That’s the message Michael Card wants to get through in his song, “In Memory of Her Love,” one of several Biblical-themed tunes he will perform Sunday during a special Easter concert at Andrews University’s Howard Performing Arts Center.

“A lot of people say the Bible in general is sort of anti-woman, but there’s really no grounds for that in terms of the Gospels, because Jesus was really wonderfully open towards women,” Card says by phone from his home in Franklin, Tenn. “One of the best examples of that comes right before Passion Week, when Mary, who is the sister of Lazarus, the guy Jesus raises from the dead, anoints his head. Jesus says she didn’t really know what she was doing, but she was doing it for his burial, because you anoint dead people. What he says then is unprecedented. He doesn’t say anything like this about anyone else, man or woman. He says, ‘From now on, wherever the Gospel is preached, what she has done is going to be told in memory of her.’ I think that’s amazing, so that’s where ‘In Memory of Her Love’ comes from.”

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