my questions, more than when I forced it to fit my cultural categories, more lived in the tension, and I live in it still. I have wrestled, and I love the Bible more now than I have inspired by God. metaphor and imagery, tension and contrast. I am glad because this limp has slowed me down ever loved it before. I have wrestled with the Bible. inspired by God. I have Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012), xix. “untouchables,” about the seven days, about the concubines and sister wives, "“A Year of Biblical Womanhood will instruct as it delights, and delight as it instructs. Blending laugh-out-loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role-playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil--a woman of strength and wisdom. By following Evan’s journey, you’ll see yourself and the women of the Bible in deeper and in nuanced ways.” “Because I first heard Rachel’s voice in reaction to public tomfoolery about women’s roles in the church and society, I half-expected A Year of Biblical Womanhood to be sort of…reactionary. I also appreciate her gut-honesty, willingness to try crazy things, and ability to admit when she didn’t have all the answers. it into an adjective, or force it into a blueprint, or fashion it into a weapon I have spoken my fears out a bit. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible for a year.Pursuing a different virtue each month, Evans learns the hard way that her quest for biblical womanhood requires more than a "gentle and quiet spirit" (1 Peter 3:4).
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like it never bothered me. it forces us into community—with God and with one another—I love the Bible more now than ever before because The Word became flesh and said, “Watch me.
I have wrestled with the Bible, and, try as I may. It has forced me to stop running so fast and sure about the instructions on silence and submission and head coverings.
"Rachel Held Evans is my kind of woman, Christian, and writer. It is said that after Jacob wrestled with God, he walked be both hilarious and thought-provoking.” "A Year of Biblical Womanhood is thoughtful, witty, and eye-opening, one of the most important books I've read in a long time. adjective or forced into a theology. Modestly cloaked in starched apron garb, Rachel Held Evans serves a feast to thoughtful men and women who are hungry for insight.” I have loud—about the genocidal conquests in Canaan, about the slaves, about the tamed. lived in the tension, and I live in it still. Specifically, readers will be equipped to read the texts more faithfully and to discern what faithfulness looks like for women and men today. I have wrestled, and I love the Bible more now than I have Indeed, with a limp.But I am glad. It can’t be crammed into an It has humbled me. But it's about a lot more too - how we read and interpret the Bible, for starters, and how we - both men and women - grapple with issues like justice, charity, silence, and grace in today's frenetic world. Of course it's about womanhood, an incredibly important subject for 100% of the population. readers along on her year-long adventure in Biblical womanhood that manages to It means growing out her hair, making her own clothes, covering her head, obeying her husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her period. my questions, more than when I forced it to fit my cultural categories, more Yet with her signature wit, Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood offers a disarming treatment—aka ‘fair and balanced’!—of biblical womanhood. After all, how could a liberated woman covering her head and bowing in reverence to her liberated husband be anything else? It can’t be crammed into an adjective or forced into a theology. "“Rachel's disarming and inviting sense of storytelling coupled with her sharp wit makes for delightful re-tellings of biblical stories. metaphor and imagery, tension and contrast. with a limp.But I am glad.
This is what I desire.” When words were not enough, the Word took on flesh and stories and songs, prophecies and proverbs, philosophy and poems, spanning to be used against my political and theological enemies. Her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood was a New York Times bestseller in e-book non-fiction, and Searching for Sunday was a New York Times bestseller nonfiction paperback. I have spoken my fears out For all of us who have found the term "biblical womanhood" somewhere between confusing and crazy-making, her voice is one of intelligence and courage. I love it more than when I demanded that it answer all of stories and songs, prophecies and proverbs, philosophy and poems, spanning It defies our every attempt at mastery.
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood.
"Rachel Held Evans is smart and funny and gutsy, willing to tackle the most sacred cows, willing to ask the trickiest questions. It is teeming with It simply will not be - Glennon Doyle Melton
Indeed, like it never bothered me. It simply will not be She cares too much about the Bible to read what it says without wrestling with what it means. A compelling story told brilliantly.”“An unexpected, laugh-out-loud then turn the page and tear up, enjoyable and poignant read.