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Politics & fashion has matured into a celebration of
womanhood with a twist of beauty, well - being and social justice.
Schappell, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair with an impressive literary pedigree, paints a multifaceted portrait of modern
womanhood with the conflicted, interconnected female protagonists of her eight compelling stories.
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Most Likely to Inspire Some Facepalm Action: The Council for Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood with «The Bad Girl's Club» [Among the «dangerous» are Ann Hutchinson, Margaret Fox, and (one of my personal heroes) Julian of Norwich.
In time, perhaps, it will yield a biblical theology of
womanhood with roots in the goodness of creation female and male.
So we've rescheduled my chat about A Year of Biblical
Womanhood with the ladies of The View for Thursday, November 1 at 11EST / 10Central on ABC.
This morning, I'll be sharing some pictures and stories from my year of biblical
womanhood with the students at Baylor University.
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.
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.
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.
This also means that, flowing from Mary's role in God's plan, all
womanhood is sacred and sacramentally (physically and spiritually) expresses the whole created world's call to co-operate
with God in bringing God's children to birth and maturity in the life of God in the image of Jesus.
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.
They are also concerned that I presented and explored a variety of divergent perspectives on what «biblical
womanhood» means (from Jewish, Catholic, Amish, feminist, polygamist, Christian fundamentalist and complementarian viewpoints, to name a few), including some viewpoints
with which they do not agree.
I wrote this book
with humor and
with love because I think both are needed in the conversation, particularly as it pertains to something as complex and beautiful as
womanhood.
Sure, there are some extra-loud voices calling for women to conform themselves to narrowly defined roles that have more to do
with an idealized conception of pre-feminist America than
with actual «biblical
womanhood,» but I believe these cries represent the last desperate throes of a dying movement.
And so part of the reason for exploring everything from Leviticus 18, to Proverbs 31, to Song of Solomon, to the epistles of Peter and Paul, was to show just how much this phrase — «biblical
womanhood» — really entails, and to not take the hermeneutical devices
with which Christians are so familiar for granted.
This week is release week for A Year of Biblical
Womanhood, and we're kicking it off in style
with a visit to the ladies at The View!
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.
3:00 — «Living the Questions» Keynote, Moody Coliseum (Book signing to follow) 6:00 — Blog Talkback
with Richard Beck, Williams Performing Art Center 8:30 — Coffee House: A Year of Biblical
Womanhood, Brown Library, Learning Commons
I wrote about my experience
with «True Love Waits» in A Year of Biblical
Womanhood.
Melissa Hatfiled (@melissahatfield)
with «I don't normally LOL while reading but @rachelheldevans's «A Year of Biblical
Womanhood» made me that person on the plane.»
It is
with excitement, trepidation, and just a hint of panic that I announce the theme of my next book — A Year of Biblical
Womanhood.
One of my goals
with my year of biblical
womanhood project is to help women take back Proverbs 31.
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In time, perhaps, it will yield a biblical theology of
womanhood (not to be subsumed under the label humanity)
with roots in the goodness of creation female and male.
Earlier this week, the Council on Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood released the declaration
with signatories including President of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore and Founder of Focus on the Family, James Dobson.
Purity that respects the sanctity of
womanhood; sincerity that makes your «yea» enough without an oath and your word as good as your bond; magnanimity, like Lincoln's,
with malice toward none,
with charity for all; kindness which unostentatiously helps one's fellows, the right hand not knowing what the left hand does — all that is livable.
She is not concerned
with the linear progression of thought; instead she shows how cycle more accurately defines
womanhood.
I am speaking generally, of course, but I think Christian women wrestle
with these questions most of all, perhaps because in a religious culture that often puts forth narrow and contested definitions of
womanhood, young women whose interests and personalities might lead them away from the list of acceptable rules and roles are subtly punished for not exhibiting a more «gentle and quiet spirit,» for not reigning in some of that ambition and drive.
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.
For folks who claim to have the corner of the market on «biblical
womanhood,» complementarians have been surprisingly unwilling to engage in conversation
with me on what the Bible actually says.
This should call into question the premise that Bible presents us
with a single, straightforward blueprint for
womanhood and that women who deviate from this blueprint are outside the will of God.
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!
With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical
Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation.
The Council on Biblical Manhood and
Womanhood describes complementarianism as the view that «God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and human personhood, but different and complementary in function
with male headship in the home and in the Church.»
You have been called to the spirit - filled and God - breathed life so may you live out the ways of Jesus into every corner of your
womanhood, always
with an eye on who is alongside of you, ahead of you, and coming up behind you.
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.
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.
Through and
with Mary
womanhood enables God to give us the fullness of life.
But I did just that in Seattle last week
with Olivia Lenz, Lynn Russell, DeHeavalyn D. Pullium, Stephanie Rubesh, Hannah McMillen, Kali Wagner, Liza González, Sarah Kyle, Danni Reaves and Samantha Fisher — Seattle Pacific University grads who are working through A Year of Biblical
Womanhood.
For more on selective literalism, but
with a fun twist, check out my book, A Year of Biblical
Womanhood.
(I spend a lot more time discussing and wrestling
with the «texts of terror» in A Year of Biblical
Womanhood.)
(Ultimately, I take issue
with the phrase «biblical
womanhood» overall.