Sentences with phrase «womanhood by»

«You don't establish your manhood or womanhood by turning 18.

Shriram insurance salutes the spirit of womanhood by offering customized options in their bouquet of plan.

The company demonstrates that they understand real, modern womanhood by promoting acceptance and celebration for who the modern «lady» is.

It respects womanhood by telling moms there is nothing in or with their bodies to be ashamed of.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans.

Not exact matches

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The Body's Lessons by Sarah Ruden The Heresy of Weightlessness Womanhood Contracted to a Span Monument to Failure by Justin Shubow Artless Architecture Tear it Down!

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

One of the journal's more interesting features during this pre - World War I period was a column called «Modern Womanhood» written by the Century's first female editor, Ida Withers Harrison.

But in the meantime, Dan put his own frustration to work and created this handy «Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical exegesis.

My quest for biblical womanhood led me to these stories late at night, long after Dan had gone to sleep, and I conducted my nightly research by his side in bed, stacks of Bibles and commentaries and legal pads threatening to swallow him should he roll over.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting On Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master by Rachel Held Evans — A disarmingly funny, wise, honest exploration of what makes a woman «biblical» and the danger of reducing the Bible to an adjective.

One of my goals after completing my year of biblical womanhood was to «take back» Proverbs 31 as a blessing, not a to - do list, by identifying and celebrating women of valor.

It was being told by people in the Christian publishing industry that I shouldn't be writing a book about womanhood anyway because I'm not a mother.

Although A Year of Biblical Womanhood released more than a year ago, a few new reviews have surfaced in recent days from folks who are concerned that «women might be confused» by the fact that my yearlong exploration of biblical womanhood involved following all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible, sometimes taking them to their most literalWomanhood released more than a year ago, a few new reviews have surfaced in recent days from folks who are concerned that «women might be confused» by the fact that my yearlong exploration of biblical womanhood involved following all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible, sometimes taking them to their most literalwomanhood involved following all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible, sometimes taking them to their most literal extreme.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

On the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Web Site, Wayne Grudem warns that if Christians accept egalitarianism, «we will begin to have whole churches who no longer «tremble» at the Word of God (Isaiah 66:2), and who no longer live by «every word that comes from the mouth of God» (Matthew 4:4), but who pick and choose the things they like and the things they don't like in the Bible.»

Arizona State University — Tempe, AZ When: Saturday, January 21, 7 - 9 p.m. Where: Tempe First United Methodist Church What: «A Year of Biblical Womanhood» Hosted by: The Wesley Foundation and Valley Wesley United Methodist Campus Ministry Admission: $ 10, free for students More info

One of my goals in writing A Year of Biblical Womanhood was to help evangelicals «take back» Proverbs 31 as a blessing, not a to - do list, by identifying and celebrating women of valor.

[By the way, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is STILL just $ 1.99 on Kindle, a pretty great deal for readers on a budget!]

Piper is one of the founders of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood — a flagship organization for the complementarian movement in America — which is now led by Owen Strachan.

So in a post last week, I somewhat casually mentioned the fact the word «vagina» was being edited out of a draft of my new book, «A Year of Biblical Womanhood,» to be released by Thomas Nelson in October.

One of my goals after completing my year of biblical womanhood was to «take back» Proverbs 31 as a blessing, not a to - do list, by identifying and celebrating women of valor: women who are changing the world through daily acts of faithfulness, both in my life and around the world.

«Deeply immersed in these values as they were, however, the women Stevens interviewed were hardly immune to the more mainstream ideals of womanhood shaped in part by liberal feminism.

As this parody of what she really was, she inspires great art, but she also stands as an obstacle to female social equality by helping perpetuate a stereotype which, whether it is shamed or glorified, demeans womanhood.

Of GOD, By the Gods, is why manhood and womanhood are «as» gods and in our seeking affairs do we mostly fail in the «Seek ye first the Kingdom of God» directive the Christ Jesus did say for us to «firstly do».

I didn't write the book to point - by - point go through Scripture's every mention of womanhood in an effort to prove something.

I will celebrate beauty where I find it, in a million faces uniquely handcrafted by a generous God with a big tent of glorious womanhood.

And the response by complementarians to these questions as posed in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, with a few exceptions (Mary Kassian has been very kind to engage), has essentially been: «Look at this silly woman who thinks you have to make a sign and literally praise your husband at the city gate!

I sacrificed them on the altar of biblical womanhood, fervently believing that the only way I could be blessed by God was to follow the clear guidelines laid out in Scripture.

From A Year of Biblical Womanhood © 2012 by Rachel Held Evans; published by Thomas Nelson.

When I first mentioned that I'd been asked by my publisher to take the word «vagina» out of my manuscript for A Year of Biblical Womanhood in deference to the general preferences of Christian bookstores, I never expected you guys to care, much less do something about it.

I've been doing lots of interviews at the conclusion of the womanhood project, (Slate, NPR, Oprah.com, The BBC, The Times London, and more), and I'm working overtime to try and finish the manuscript by mid-November.

It's been a joy to hear from women who read A Year of Biblical Womanhood and report that where they once hated Proverbs 31, it's now one of their favorite passages because it provides a fun way to celebrate all those daily acts of faithfulness exhibited by the women in their lives.

We don't even realize how much we are influenced by the dominant culture of how womanhood is portrayed.

Chip is just the newest adventure brought on by my year of biblical womanhood.

Driving down that road I've always been curious about has nothing to do with biblical womanhood, but it promises better material than if I just passed by again... so I take it.

Just last week I was accused of heresy by Owen Strachan of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and I often get «farewelled» on Twitter (or «excommunitweeted») for the supposed heresies of egalitarianism and theistic evolution.

There is one more myth regarding «biblical womanhood» that we really need to address as part of our series — and that is the myth that a true woman of God is defined by her roles as a wife, mother, and homemaker.

I could never have predicted this time last year that in 2012 folks would find this blog by searching for «vaginagate,» or «woman of valor,» or «feminist Chick - fil - A,» or «Whoopi womanhood,» or «egalitarian pleasuring party.»

As I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culture.

I remember one essay in particular; the author argued that we can not use subjective words such as «feminine» as a descriptor of women because, by very nature of womanhood, if you are a woman, then it is, in fact, regardless of stereotypes, feminine.

That in the hours when womanhood should be surrounded by the tenderest care, Mary was alone.

Indeed, even yet the status of womanhood is eminently unfair and the emancipation of women is attended by domestic and moral turmoil amounting at times to chaos.

While, therefore, under the early Hebrew system a shocking absence of regard for womanhood is revealed in some narratives, so that Professor J. M. Powis Smith can even say that in the early traditions of Israel, «Chivalry is conspicuous by its almost total absence,» (The Moral Life of the Hebrews, p. 41.)

I'll admit that I am at once fascinated, infuriated, and intimidated by the notion of «biblical womanhood» for it implies that the Bible contains a sort of blueprint for what it means to be a woman of God.

Lesbianism squelches the design of otherness by drowning womanhood in a sea of sameness, and in the process loses any concept of what makes the female feminine.

After discovering and sharing «Blinded by a Bear» this week, the curator offered to include A Year of Biblical Womanhood among the titles.

October 27: Biblical Womanhood and the Jar of Contention So my big announcement about Book # 2 caused quite a stir on Wednesday, and I was absolutely thrilled by the conversation that followed it.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs