Becky Holderness Tilton

Becky Holderness Tilton is a writer and a humanitarian. She works with some of the most amazing people on the planet as Director of Asia Operations for the nonprofit LETS, an organization dedicated to creating sustainable families and eliminating poverty through reproductive health education. She holds a BA from Brigham Young University in International Studies. She and her incredibly supportive husband David are the parents of five children and live in Middleton, Idaho. Becky loves world religions, the music of foreign languages, yoga, and tasting something new.

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Moses as Midwife:
What the Exodus Birth Story Teaches about Motherhood and Christ

by Becky Holderness Tilton | undefined 57 | 07-07-2023

Abstract: This work explores an alternative interpretation of the Exodus narrative as a metaphor for childbirth. Gleaning from Old Testament and Judaic sources, we find rich female birth and salvific imagery in the saga of the migration of the children of Israel and the Passover itself. This perspective of sacred childbirth, when coupled with traditional […]

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