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I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I loved every page!
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This one I can’t put into stars. Very glad to have read it and so very sad the author won’t have more to write.
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Possibly the best book I've ever read. Slowly getting back into reading for pleasure after GCSE and then A Levels and I did not want to put this down! Rachel Held Evans was a gift to the world in so many ways.
As a woman who has always been part of a mostly egalitarian Christian denomination, I'm not 100% the intended audience for this book. I didn't need convincing about women's roles in the Church. But I liked the book anyway. Some of Held-Evans' endeavors were a little silly, but mixed into the book were a great number of references to women in the Bible, both named and unnamed. She went in-depth enough with context and language to teach me some new things, which I appreciated. If it had just been a memoir, I likely would not have finished the book.
I came to know Rachel after her tragic, unexpected death in 2019. She was a friend, a sister and a teacher to many of the women of faith who I follow and support, and I was moved by their tributes to her. This is my first RHE book, and it won’t be my last. I love Rachel’s humor, her humility, and her wholehearted faith. She questioned modern translations of the Bible - particularly the passages that are most often taken out of context to confine women into submissive roles and keep them out of positions of church leadership. She celebrated the women of valor in the Bible and in her daily life. She listened to truly understand, and she loved with everything she had. I wish I could have her over for dinner.
This was an interesting read. I am not really a fan of the author, so I went into the book with a bit of a skeptic's attitude. While the story was engaging and I thought it was fairly well-researched, I still feel like it was missing a lot. I felt as if the author was just regurgitating facts and things that happened (in a very dry way, sometimes) without really putting any feeling into it. I wanted more practical application, I wanted to feel MORE from this author. I wanted to learn more about her thoughts and feelings, not just what she was doing.
The whole concept of biblical womanhood and what it means, especially in this day and age, is a really interesting one and brought about a lot of questions about my faith and what it means to be a woman. There were some Bible verses and stories that the author brought up that made me want to dig deeper and look more fully. I don't think I ever realized how oppressed woman were back then! (Which is silly, I know, but it just never occurred to me!)
While it sometimes seems like Evans was trying to conform too much to make the book not too "preachy" (which never bothers me when I'm reading Christian nonfiction, honestly), I still will give this book 3 stars because it was engaging at times and did make me think long and hard about biblical womanhood.
The whole concept of biblical womanhood and what it means, especially in this day and age, is a really interesting one and brought about a lot of questions about my faith and what it means to be a woman. There were some Bible verses and stories that the author brought up that made me want to dig deeper and look more fully. I don't think I ever realized how oppressed woman were back then! (Which is silly, I know, but it just never occurred to me!)
While it sometimes seems like Evans was trying to conform too much to make the book not too "preachy" (which never bothers me when I'm reading Christian nonfiction, honestly), I still will give this book 3 stars because it was engaging at times and did make me think long and hard about biblical womanhood.
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