How ‘The Faithful’ Producers Centered Women for Fox’s Biblical Event Series

At the forefront of most biblical retellings are the many patriarchs of the Old Testament or the apostles of the New Testament, with the women who paved the way for Christianity, Judaism and Islamic faith rarely getting their due.

It’s an observation noted by Carol Mendelsohn (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”), especially after going back through the Bible and seeing how few women were named — including Hagar, the Egyptian handmaid who gives Sarah and Abraham their first son, whose story...