A review by northbailey
A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans

3.0

I didn't enjoy this as much as her previous book, perhaps because I found the information kind of old-hat, and perhaps because the presentation felt more like a blog and less like a book. There are a number of important conclusions from Rachel's year, such as "...engaging with the Bible can never mean that we simply extract meaning from it, but also that we read meaning into it" and "...there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text is not what does it say? but what am I looking for?" If your interest lies in this area, I would suggest Scot McKnight's The Blue Parakeet instead of or in addition to this book.