And believe it or not, the trip coincides perfectly with
the womanhood project, as I plan to spend the month of July focusing on justice.
Most Likely to Keep the Conversation Going: Two Friars and a Fool debate «Biblical Masculinity» in the context of my Biblical
Womanhood Project
February 23: Gordon College Chapel - Wenham, Massachusetts Wednesday, 10:25 a.m. - A.J. Gordon Memorial Chapel Again I'll be talking about the Bible as a conversation - starter, focusing on the importance of «study» as it applies to the spiritual disciplines, and of course sharing some of the ups and downs of my biblical
womanhood project
February 25: Eastern Nazarene College Chapel — Quincy, Massachusetts Friday, 10:25 a.m. — Wollaston Church of the Nazarene I'll be talking about the Bible as a conversation - starter, sharing some of the ups and downs of my biblical
womanhood project.
I'll be out of commission for the rest of the week as I prepare to host Thanksgiving dinner at my house — part of my domestic duties for
the womanhood project.
NPR is featuring
the womanhood project on the weekend edition of «All Things Considered.»
Last week I was privileged to spend some time in Pennsylvania's Amish country talking with Old Order Amish and Mennonite women as part of my biblical
womanhood project.
I've been focusing on justice this month, both in preparation for my trip to Bolivia and as part of the biblical
womanhood project.
The article included several factual errors and a lot of assumptions about my motives for taking on the year of biblical
womanhood project.
I've gotten a lot of questions about the biblical
womanhood project over the past few months, and I thought it might be fun to bring Dan in on a video post so we can respond to them together.
Next Friday I'll post some photos / video updating you on the biblical
womanhood project — specifically my afternoon on the roof doing penance over the jar of contention (scheduled for tomorrow) and my first official etiquette lesson (scheduled for Monday).
On Saturday, twelve generous ladies came to my house to act as «servant girls» for a day and help me finish my most daunting sewing / knitting projects for
the womanhood project — a pillow, a dress, and a couple of scarves.
I told them a little about
my womanhood project and about my trip to St. Bernard.
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.
I'm so glad you got to meet Dan in last week's video post about
the womanhood project.
One of my goals with my year of biblical
womanhood project is to help women take back Proverbs 31.
We talk about
the womanhood project, «Love Wins,» God experiences, and church.
It was cold and raining and I was in a bad mood because
the womanhood project requires that I grow out my hair, which is thick and unruly and frizzy in the rain, and so just five months into the project it looks as though a small animal has died on my head.
Not exact matches
My goal with the
project was to create something of a second naivety in order to open «biblical
womanhood» up for further discussion, to, in a sense, start at the beginning again.
The purpose of my
project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical
womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding
womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical
womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.
It sounds crazy, but I spent three days at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman, Alabama as part of my «biblical
womanhood»
project last year, and it was one of the most meaningful times of prayer and contemplation I've ever experienced.
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.
But my
project was an exploration of biblical
womanhood — not Old Testament
womanhood, not New Testament
womanhood, not Jewish
womanhood, not Christian
womanhood....
[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.]
It's ironic that some complementarains have criticized A Year of Biblical
Womanhood for employing an inconsistent hermeneutic without seeming to realize that this was exactly what I intended to do with the
project.
, a big part of the
project involved exploring how a variety of people interpret and apply the concept of «biblical
womanhood.»
I think my
project is especially relevant because «biblical
womanhood» is such a hot topic in evangelical circles and such a real presence in the lives of many women of faith.
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.
She sees the deep perversity of the «androgyny
project» of the past thirty years that demands manhood of women and a diminution of manhood among men, but refuses to tolerate
womanhood in women.
As I've mentioned before, each month of the
project I focus on a different theme that is associated with «biblical
womanhood,» and the theme for August is silence.
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.»
Just think of the icons of
womanhood that the media insistently
project today — «neither virgin nor mother».
When viewed in the context of the yearlong «Biblical
Womanhood»
project, it highlighted a strange absurdity.
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Current
projects include In the Shadow of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice, which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black
womanhood in Western art from the late - eighteenth century to the present, and a companion volume — tentatively entitled Touched by the Mother: Contemporary Artists, Black Masculinities, and the Ends of the American Century — that brings together many of his new and previously published critical essays.
Her
projects are often autobiographical in nature, maintaining a focus on
womanhood, memories and the development of society.
Whether colloquial queen, distant mother or other, Dancy's materialized matriarch encompasses the many facets of performed and
projected womanhood.