Renew Covenant Church Sermons

Entrenched in a patriarchal society and married to the "Alpha Man," Vashti risks privilege and position and even her life to stand up to power and say "no" to sexual objectification and abuse by her husband. Her refusal upsets the fragility of the male ego which threatens the entire power structure of the Kingdom. We don't know what happens to Vashti, but we point to a hero who does not get the attention deserved in traditional Biblical interpretations. This is actually a common strand in the witness of Scripture--that women in the margins are uplifted in God's narrative to central figures contra the hierarchies of power.