For me–and those like-minded-the task that lies ahead is to make only one of these corrections, and to make it stick: Junias must be corrected to Junia. I trust that both theoretically and actually the Apostle Junias, who had deprived Junia of a century of apostleship, has evaporated- and rightly so for he was merely the figment of the wishful imagination of some influential white European, British, and American male scholars, caught up in But actively abetting a culturally shaped bias that wished to exclude women from leadership positions in the church- in this case a role that a named woman filled in the earliest period and fulfilled as an outstanding member.