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Queens & Gods
The Testaments of Queens. Women of Scripture granted voice, interior life, and moral gravity. Read more slowly; listen more carefully.
Print edition also on Amazon (UK).
New Chapter · Now Online
The Image That Broke
A single, charged confrontation in a Temple Square — a woman refusing to bow before a god who wears only a man’s face. The opening chapter is now available to read online.
“A God large enough to resemble those you were taught to stand beneath.”
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5 short pages · Members · Work in progress
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The Testament of Eve
Not a symbol, but a reflective partner whose longing for wisdom carries consequence and cost. Five chapters tracing the garden, the blaming, the births, the shadows between sons, and the wages of sin.
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5 chapters · The Testaments of Queens
What You'll Find Inside
10
Testaments
From Eve to Bilhah, each woman speaks in her own voice.
37
Chapters
Deeply researched, theologically serious, emotionally honest.
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The Image That Broke — Ch. 1 is live
Read the opening chapter online: a woman, a temple, and a god too small for what she has seen.
On re-imagining Scripture
Listening to what the text leaves unsaid — women granted voice and moral gravity.
Meet the Author
Edwin C. Polela is the author of Queens & Gods and The Image That Broke. His writing grants voice and moral gravity to women in the biblical record and dwells in the spaces Scripture leaves unsaid.
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