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She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
by Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, Sheila Wray Gregoire, Joanna Sawatsky
I was ecstatic to receive an early e-book copy of this.
This book is so incredibly important -and it is beautifully written by Christians, scholars, and moms where you can feel the ferventness of their faith as well as their passion to do better for their children on every page. It's marketed as a mother-daughter book, but I think it's absolutely vital for ANYONE who is a parent, grandparents, aunt, uncle, family friend, youth group leader, pastor - or anyone who loves and helps leads young people.
This book shows how so much of what has been touted as Christian teachings on gender, sex, and gender roles is (A) not the only or universal way to understand things and (B) harming our children. It guides conversations for moms, daughters (and anyone who loves them) about how to approach these nuanced, complicated issues in grace and truth.
This book is robustly based in quality scriptural teaching and well-done research to give not just opinions and pontification, but hearty evidence of how we can do better. For example, the book starts by pointing out that yes, on the average, church attendance helps young people, especially girls. However, going to a church that teaches toxic, hurtful things is actually worse than not going.
Imagine the empowerment and awakening that could happen in the church if we really faced the hurt that our biases and selective misinterpretations of scripture have done and truly protected and empowered girls and women to live out the calling of Jesus in their lives. If we bound up wounds and unfettered those God has called.
Everyone in church circles these days knows about the "rise of the nones" and a younger generation less interested in church attendance. So many want to bemoan it and wring their hands, half worried, half resigned to the failures and weaknesses of "young people today" and sad that we just can't do anything about it.
But what if we can?
What if people are less interested in church attendance because it doesn't look and act like Jesus? What if, by radically listening and reflecting, we can get back on a path towards God where we seek His truth, not ours? What if Church didn't cover things up and hurt people? This is the kind of book, and the kind of difficult, reflective conversation, that we need to get us there.
This book is so incredibly important -and it is beautifully written by Christians, scholars, and moms where you can feel the ferventness of their faith as well as their passion to do better for their children on every page. It's marketed as a mother-daughter book, but I think it's absolutely vital for ANYONE who is a parent, grandparents, aunt, uncle, family friend, youth group leader, pastor - or anyone who loves and helps leads young people.
This book shows how so much of what has been touted as Christian teachings on gender, sex, and gender roles is (A) not the only or universal way to understand things and (B) harming our children. It guides conversations for moms, daughters (and anyone who loves them) about how to approach these nuanced, complicated issues in grace and truth.
This book is robustly based in quality scriptural teaching and well-done research to give not just opinions and pontification, but hearty evidence of how we can do better. For example, the book starts by pointing out that yes, on the average, church attendance helps young people, especially girls. However, going to a church that teaches toxic, hurtful things is actually worse than not going.
Imagine the empowerment and awakening that could happen in the church if we really faced the hurt that our biases and selective misinterpretations of scripture have done and truly protected and empowered girls and women to live out the calling of Jesus in their lives. If we bound up wounds and unfettered those God has called.
Everyone in church circles these days knows about the "rise of the nones" and a younger generation less interested in church attendance. So many want to bemoan it and wring their hands, half worried, half resigned to the failures and weaknesses of "young people today" and sad that we just can't do anything about it.
But what if we can?
What if people are less interested in church attendance because it doesn't look and act like Jesus? What if, by radically listening and reflecting, we can get back on a path towards God where we seek His truth, not ours? What if Church didn't cover things up and hurt people? This is the kind of book, and the kind of difficult, reflective conversation, that we need to get us there.