My relationship with it was severed, and I was struggling with that. It made me feel like I kind of repaired my relationship with the Bible.
Doing that was really, really healthy in the end. Spending this intense year with the Bible, and on a topic that I really struggled with before - what does the Bible say about women? - I think I’ve faced my very worst fears about the Bible and what it says and what it means to me. So trying to lead people into a more healthy appreciation of the Bible - that’s what I’m trying to do, because that’s what it did for me. The Bible doesn’t have just one thing to say about how to be a woman of faith, and it doesn’t prescribe a single lifestyle. And part of honoring the Bible is acknowledging that. We would like to think it’s a list of what to do and what not to do, but it’s not. And what I’m trying to do in a humorous and disarming way is to broach the subject of what is biblical womanhood, really? The Bible can’t be crammed into an adjective. What bothers me even more is that it’s watering down Scripture and being reductive about the Bible.
You’ll hear people say, “Women should stay home and not go to work, because I believe in biblical womanhood.” Or, “A man should not be a stay-at-home dad, because this isn’t biblical manhood.” People use this as a weapon, as a way of saying there is only one lifestyle, and that bothers me. I’m trying to start a conversation about what we mean when we say we’re biblical. Q: What are you trying to accomplish with “A Year of Biblical Womanhood”? This included not cutting her hair, covering her head when she prayed and calling her husband “master.”Īnd Christianity Today named her one of “50 Women You Should Know,” based on a survey of Christian leaders asked “which Christian women are most profoundly shaping the evangelical church and North American society.”Įvans, a graduate of Bryan College who is also the author of “Evolving in Monkey Town,” spoke to Cherry Crayton for Faith & Leadership about “A Year of Biblical Womanhood,” why people leave the church and her vision of the church in postmodern America.
Evans recently appeared on the “Today” show, and a slew of publications, from Slate to The Huffington Post, ran stories about her project to live out the instructions for women in the Bible as literally as possible. 30 and already has sparked lots of chatter.
“A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband ‘Master’” was released Oct. The popular Christian blogger and author said she also wrote her second book to encourage Christians to have “better and more honest and engaging conversations about the Bible.” Rachel Held Evans didn’t chronicle her yearlong attempt to follow the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible just to have more conversations about gender roles and women in the church, she said. Update: Rachel Held Evans died May 4, 2019.
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