That God will continue to keep that flame that he first sent down some twothousandyearsago to those men in the upper room in Jerusalem, the flame that we carry forth today.
Feminist theologians argue that the lack of female disciples was not unusual twothousandyearsago, and point instead to the key role held by other women in his life: his friends Mary and Martha, Lazarus's sisters, and the prostitute Mary Magdalene.