Why Is Saint Miriam a Different Type of Church?
Our Saint and namesake is Miriam (14th century B.C.). She was the older sister of Moses thought to be the actual voice behind one of the oldest poems in the Hebrew Scriptures, The Song of Moses, celebrating the previously unimaginable event of God taking the side of the forgotten, dispossessed slaves and leading them to freedom. In Exodus, Miriam leads the women of Israel in a dance of thanksgiving for the freedom God has given them. Miriam was a prophetess in her own right (Ex.
