Sentences with phrase «about womanhood»

This exhibition — like her life in art — was about womanhood, and it served as a living will of sorts, a testimony to her belief in the power of contemporary art and the power of women in art.

Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original audiobook that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how - and for whom - to live.

«But there is a strong roster of books that are likely to catch fire in 2018, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton penning a White House thriller with bestselling author James Patterson, a haunting debut from a senior publishing executive, and one of the most - watched novelists in America, Meg Wolitzer of The Interestings, with a timely story about womanhood, power, and ambition.»

Angier demystifies the workings of the female body and eradicates myriad misconcep ¬ tions about womanhood in this exacting, high - spirited exploration of the awe - inspiring complexities of female anatomy.

Gabby wishes her father would hurry up and marry someone who knows more about womanhood than she does, someone who understands her obsession with all that is happening (and, worse, not happening!)

In its depiction of the collective experiences of the female characters, what does the book seem to reveal about womanhood?

It's about womanhood in the 21st century.

Turning an album into a gorgeously - rendered art film was new, unexpected, and revolutionary, and Beyoncé did it while weaving a narrative about womanhood, motherhood, loss, reconciliation, and yes, race.

I embrace everything about womanhood and want that as part of my spiritual practice as well.

This third wave emerged in the second part of the 1990s and sought to question and mainly redefine the ideas, words, and media that transmitted ideas about womanhood, beauty, sexuality, motherhood and parenting styles.

On more than one occasion I've been told that because I am not a mother, I am not qualified to write a book about womanhood.

Such names as Miriam, Deborah, Esther, and Judith in Jewish history and tradition are typical of an important fact about womanhood's estate in Israel.

I told them a little about my womanhood project and about my trip to St. Bernard.

This does not make the Bible irrelevant, for what may be most relevant is not a Bible verse about womanhood or divorce but Paul's powerful analysis of the self in conflict as found in Romans 7.

My answer is always the same: I wanted to start a conversation — about faith, about womanhood, about how those of us who love and esteem the Bible are to interpret and apply it to our lives.

I'm so glad you got to meet Dan in last week's video post about the womanhood project.

I've sat through church services or conferences or workplaces or public arenas where the only women who are visible are the ones who are extremely thin, who are white, who are blonde, who are American, who are fashionably dressed and professionally done - up, who are able - bodied, who are bright without being intimidating, who are pretty without being sexy, who are unthreatening to our status quo of appropriate, who are ticking every box for what our culture tells us is acceptable about womanhood.

Of course it's about womanhood, an incredibly important subject for 100 % of the population.

And so I will sing a song of wonder and beauty about womanhood for you to learn from my lips.

She tells us more about womanhood in European Christian civilization than any other single figure.

We talk about the womanhood project, «Love Wins,» God experiences, and church.

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.

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.

Rather than debate academic studies about first - century womanhood, why not try out a biblical notion such as head covering and see what happens?

Yesterday, a little Twitter feud (the best and most official sort of feud) started when A Year of Biblical Womanhood author Rachel Held Evans tweeted about The Nines — a very popular annual online church leadership conference.

But what makes Jesus Feminist so fantastic, so challenging is Bessey's ability to be both the friend who tells us the truth about «womanhood» inside our churches and the sage who shows us how Jesus embraced equality and how we can do it better.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

My goal in exposing this myth about «biblical womanhood» is not to berate Mark Driscoll or to suggest that Christian women everywhere should trash their skirts and blouses and break out their sweatpants and banana clips.

Now that my year of biblical womanhood is over, I thought you might have some questions for us — about the project, about our marriage, about our strange, self - employed life in East Tennessee.

Churches are usually pretty good about valuing motherhood, but I think that sometimes the intense focus on that aspect of what Christian womanhood means can lead to us devaluing a lot of other amazing things that women can (and do) do for God.

Is womanhood only about wifehood and motherhood?

I was 21 or 22 when I began questioning what I'd been taught about what constituted «biblical» politics, «biblical» marriage, and «biblical» womanhood, and wondering if it was wise, or even possible, to reduce the Bible into an adjective.

We had more than 300 people apply to be part of the launch team for A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and because I absolutely hate not including everyone — especially when just about everyone had amazing ideas and meaningful words of encouragement — I've left the selection process to my team at Thomas Nelson.

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.

I've also encountered quite a few Christians who are absolutely livid that I included these stories in a book about biblical womanhood.

Then I'm off to Greenville College in Greenville, IL, where I'll be sharing about my faith and doubt in convocation on Thursday night at 9:30 p.m. and about my «Year of Biblical Womanhood» at Friday chapel at 9:30 a.m.

On Wednesday, March 26, I'll be speaking about my year of biblical womanhood at Wingate University near Charlotte, North Carolina at 8:00 p.m. at the George A. Battle Fine Arts Center in the McGee Theater.

I'll be sharing about my «Year of Biblical Womanhood» on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and about cultivating spaces of wilderness on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

East Tennessee doesn't have a large Jewish population, so for the first few months of my year of biblical womanhood, I searched high and low for a Jewish source to answer my questions about Jewish holidays, kosher eating, mixed fibers, head coverings, and niddah.

After that I'll be spending Sunday (October 6) with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky, speaking at the 10 a.m. service and then sharing about my «year of biblical womanhood» at a 7 p.m. for their Dimensions of Faith series.

So I'll be in Wilmore, Kentucky on Wednesday, February 20, speaking in chapel at Asbury University about my year of biblical womanhood.

On Saturday evening, at 6:30 p.m., I'll be sharing about my year of biblical womanhood, and on Sunday morning, at 10:30 a.m., I'll be speaking on «the wilderness» in the morning service.

Rather, it seems that only one - type of womanhood is usually the focus on most womens» ministries, just like a lot of men are rather tired of pancake breakfasts and retreats about shooting guns and refraining from masturbation.

I touched on this important connection in my post about submission in context and in A Year of Biblical Womanhood.]

So I'll be speaking at Calvin College tonight (April 10) at 7 p.m. in the Chapel about my Year of Biblical Womanhood.

Last week, we talked about the way in which the word «biblical» gets tossed around so carelessly these days — «biblical» politics, «biblical» courtship, «biblical» economics, «biblical» manhood, «biblical» womanhood — and how any claim to a biblical lifestyle or perspective is inherently selective.

I've received countless emails from women who, upon reading about the original intent of Proverbs 31 in A Year of Biblical Womanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of wWomanhood, report that for the first time in their lives, they no longer feel that they are falling short of some sort of impossible standard of womanhoodwomanhood.

I wrote about my experience with «True Love Waits» in A Year of Biblical Womanhood.

Walker - Barnes seamlessly weaves together the academic and pastoral in this book that has me rethinking everything I thought I knew about race, womanhood, and even the Trinity.

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