Author - Sandra Glahn

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Dr. Sandra Glahn is professor of media arts and worship at Dallas Theological Seminary, where she earned a ThM degree. She holds a PhD in the humanities/aesthetic studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Glahn is the author or co-author of more than twenty books, including the Coffee Cup Bible Study series (AMG). Her most recent work is 'Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament' (IVP Academic). The cofounder of the Visual Museum of Women in Christianity (www.visualmuseum.gallery), Glahn is the wife of one husband, mother of one married daughter, and Nana of a granddaughter.

The words image that fell from heaven with a photo of the diopter of Ephesus on a blue background.

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Biblical Archaeology

What Is “The Image that Fell from Heaven” in Acts 19:35?

Sandra Glahn3 months ago

In Acts 19:35, the Ephesus city clerk refers to an image that fell from heaven. What was this image that fell from heaven?

a close up image of a man with a finger on his lips to represent shattering the silence on mental health.

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Practical Theology

Who Sinned? Maybe No One: Mental Health & Broken Embodiment

Sandra Glahn6 months ago

Our Christianity is rooted in our physicality. The first chapters of Genesis describes God creating matter and calling it good, followed by God creating male and female bodies and calling them very good. The incarnation of Jesus adds special dignity...

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Practical Theology Theology

Bioethics from Embryo to Deathbed: Right, Wrong, and Healthcare

Sandra GlahnSeptember 12, 2023

Life is messy. Really messy. And it presents humans with all sorts of complicated spiritual, social, and legal challenges about what’s right and wrong, or even good or best. Ethics relates to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions. When...

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Culture and Context

Infertility and the Bible: Recovering Mother’s Day from Hallmark

Sandra GlahnMay 8, 2023

This Mother’s Day will be my first since my family buried my mother. Yet the pangs that come with the day’s approach have an odd familiarity. During the decade when my husband and I experienced infertility, multiple pregnancy losses, and three...