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I'm very sad to have discovered Rachel and her writing after she's passed away, because her character and voice are so refreshing and uplifting.
This book was hard for me to get behind at first, since I have struggled recently with Conservative Christians' social stances, being a strong Christian myself. However, by the end, I really understood Rachel's purpose of going through this Year of Biblical Womanhood, and I think it brings up a lot of important issues that women of this century should be thinking about. The bible teaches women to be empowered because they have gifts just like men do. Rachel did a good job of communicating this, but I think she could've stressed it even more at times.
And I wish she stressed how some of the "biblical" things she did come more from our culture's interpretation and are not truly taught in the bible at all.
This book was hard for me to get behind at first, since I have struggled recently with Conservative Christians' social stances, being a strong Christian myself. However, by the end, I really understood Rachel's purpose of going through this Year of Biblical Womanhood, and I think it brings up a lot of important issues that women of this century should be thinking about. The bible teaches women to be empowered because they have gifts just like men do. Rachel did a good job of communicating this, but I think she could've stressed it even more at times.
And I wish she stressed how some of the "biblical" things she did come more from our culture's interpretation and are not truly taught in the bible at all.
LOVED this book. Evans really examines what it means to be a Christian woman, and her findings line up with my own faith journey, so admittedly, I'm a bit biased. This is a book that I will revisit--most likely during church when I am listening to people say things that aren't really all that reflective of what I believe Christianity should be.
I stumbled across this book on one of the book blogs I read and, without even really reading the synopsis, immediately requested it from the library. I'd read "A Year of LIving Biblically" and enjoyed it, and thought I might enjoy this one as well. Being non-religious it's sometimes hard to get excited about books where one of the main themes is religion, but I so enjoyed this book that I read it in one sitting. Rachel comes off as someone I would want to be friends with, were we to ever meet, which made reading this even more enjoyable. She's self-effacing, and honestly just plain funny and this book I think would be something that anyone could appreciate.
Like A.J. Jacobs, Rachel set out to live life following the rules set about in the Bible. Also like Jacobs, because the rules set for can be a bit cumbersome in today's world, she focused on certain rules for specific months. Unlike A.J. Jacobs, she emphasized those rules strictly set for women while also telling the stories of the Bible's important women, some of the stories I'd never heard. She also interspersed journal entries from her husband, which gave you his point of view into her year long quest, which I think made it a little more real. So it became less "story" and more "biography".
I think the only parts I didn't like were the ones where she got serious in talking about faith, and I think that's simply because I don't believe. I doubt most Christians would even bat an eye at those passages. They don't take away from the book at all, but I'll admit I skimmed them.
But I really loved this book. It's a fast, easy read, and I laughed out loud numerous times, and was brought to tears at others. I really love the things you take away from reading it about helping others, being cognizant of how your actions affect the world, and realizing how women can get the short end of the stick when it comes to religion, but how it doesn't need to be that way.
Like A.J. Jacobs, Rachel set out to live life following the rules set about in the Bible. Also like Jacobs, because the rules set for can be a bit cumbersome in today's world, she focused on certain rules for specific months. Unlike A.J. Jacobs, she emphasized those rules strictly set for women while also telling the stories of the Bible's important women, some of the stories I'd never heard. She also interspersed journal entries from her husband, which gave you his point of view into her year long quest, which I think made it a little more real. So it became less "story" and more "biography".
I think the only parts I didn't like were the ones where she got serious in talking about faith, and I think that's simply because I don't believe. I doubt most Christians would even bat an eye at those passages. They don't take away from the book at all, but I'll admit I skimmed them.
But I really loved this book. It's a fast, easy read, and I laughed out loud numerous times, and was brought to tears at others. I really love the things you take away from reading it about helping others, being cognizant of how your actions affect the world, and realizing how women can get the short end of the stick when it comes to religion, but how it doesn't need to be that way.
Yo I was not prepared for this book to hit so hard. Honestly probably wouldn't have picked it up if someone hadn't loaned it to me, but I think this is more what I expected Jesus Feminism to be, and this delivered where that disappointed. Yeah it's a fun, entertaining, personal story of one woman's journey — but it was also chock full of solid, illuminating, convicting, sound doctrine and explanation and explication. This view of the Bible, of what "biblical" truly means, is so helpful and needed—for me, and for evangelical culture.
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