Sentences with phrase «owning womanhood»

No, instead, I've found God in the daily scrum and commitment, the discipline and noise, of a family and a community and my own womanhood.

I'm not here to pretend like this wasn't hard — I'm not the «goddess» type who can easily bare all and just own her womanhood.

Not exact matches

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.

It is simple on paper, but not so simple in application... and so I too am left to struggle with those passages that don't seem to fit my bias and to inconsistently and imperfectly apply my own hermeneutic to the Bible and to womanhood.

More often than not, appeals to «biblical womanhood»... or «biblical» anything for that matter... represent an oversimplification, a reductive approach to biblical interpretation that fails to at least acknowledge its own hermeneutical biases.

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.

[It should be noted here that complementarian notions of manhood and womanhood tend to be based on culturally — influenced stereotypes, many of which project idealized notions of the post-industrial revolution nuclear family onto biblical texts rather than taking those texts on their own terms — a topic we've discussed at length in the past and will continued to discuss in the future.]

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But as with Evolving in Monkey Town and A Year of Biblical Womanhood, it's important for me to not only share my own story, but also the stories of friends, family, and readers, in an effort to broaden the scope of the project and introduce new perspectives.

Of course I love it when folks use the summer to pick up one or two of my own titles: Faith Unraveled, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, and Searching For Sunday

So before we go and mine the Bible for verses about women and then apply them universally as elements of «biblical womanhood,» we've got to humbly acknowledge our own limitations in applying an ancient text to modern times.

For my project last year, I decided to plot my own career along Piper's continuum to see if he would consider my line of work appropriate to «biblical womanhood.»

Queer theory thus invites the individual to leave behind the straitjacket of «manhood» or «womanhood» that he did not choose, and express himself according to his own self - perceptions.

We remind ourselves of our own inherent worth, and we push through, and we change the face of womanhood one woman at a time.

womanhood, but mostly from her own experience of dating white men.

And this is where Tully becomes all about the condition of women today, and an even more extraordinary cinematic depiction of womanhood... or at least of the big slice of womanhood that is overachieving, fiercely independent — which is true of Marlo even though she is married, to Drew (Ron Livingston: The 5th Wave, Vacation)-- and proud of her own smarts and abilities.

All the while, a budding romance between Joe and a journalist (Stacy Edwards) is given short shrift — Driven is, after all, already a love story between men and men, and men and their machines; Joe's ex-wife (Gina Gershon) is so appalling a burlesque of womanhood that one can hardly blame Driven's asphalt gladiators for preferring their own company.

From the deftly - shot cinematography in terrifying woods to the obvious, yet undeniably perfect, casting of horror favorite Brad Dourif, who portrays Daddy with delicious creepiness and an unexpected layer of sympathy borne from his own fear of his daughter's emerging womanhood.

While I think some of those feelings are normal as a young person is going through puberty and especially moving into young womanhood — women get mixed messages about being «shadows» versus asserting their own will — I think for both Phoebe and Marithe this was exacerbated by their fragmented family situation.

In doing so, she writes about mothers and daughters, anger, indigenous womanhood and the power of unabashedly seizing your own narrative.

As I scrolled through our hashtag #femaletravelbloggers on Instagram today I saw that celebrating womanhood was intimate, personal and different to each woman based on her own experience.

She focuses on fusing found objects to convey her own personal memories, inspired by nature, womanhood and her belief in recycling energy and materials.

She is interested in reimagining her own origins, creating labor - intensive works that explore specific issues of landscape, womanhood, and race.

Hosted by Lanisa Kitchiner, director of education and scholarly initiatives at the museum, the panel «will explore how they negotiate intention versus impact in creative works, how they navigate the exclusive art world, and how they use black female bodies — particularly their own — to create alternative visions of black womanhood.»

Its subject is again a pair of eyes, in this case Neel's own, gazing out unseen though what look like prison bars, as trapped as an artist by her womanhood as, a couple of blocks away, was Louise Bourgeois.

This collection lets Indigenous women tell their own stories about experiences of motherhood, womanhood and citizenship in Canada.

You are & have been an inspiration to the reawakening of true womanhood in our spheres of our own little corner of the world & to that I say thankyou.