{"id":215,"date":"2013-02-01T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=215"},"modified":"2013-02-01T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:20:53","slug":"book-review-a-year-of-biblical-womanhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2013\/02\/01\/book-review-a-year-of-biblical-womanhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: A Year of Biblical Womanhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2013\/02\/a-year-of-biblical-womanhood.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[215]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-216\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2013\/02\/a-year-of-biblical-womanhood-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2013\/02\/a-year-of-biblical-womanhood-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2013\/02\/a-year-of-biblical-womanhood.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><strong>A Year of Biblical Womanhood<\/strong> by <strong>Rachel Held Evans<\/strong>.Thomas Nelson Publishers (2012)<\/p>\n<p>Brought up in a church that supported &#8220;traditional gender roles&#8221; for men and women, Rachel Held Evans takes us on a journey to investigate what &#8216;biblical womanhood&#8217; really might look like in the 21st Century. Described as &#8220;an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation&#8221;, Held Evans pursues a different virtue each month (gentleness, obedience, beauty, silence, submission), wrestles with Scripture and shares her stories with a great mixture of humor, compassion and detail. She pays particular attention to Proverbs 31, challenging how some churches have interpreted this passage and questions what it truly means to be a &#8216;woman of valor&#8217; (a series she continues to investigate on her popular <a title=\"Rachel Held Evans\" href=\"http:\/\/rachelheldevans.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>). A fun, thought-provoking and insightful read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Book review by Alice Hague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=215&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans.Thomas Nelson Publishers (2012) Brought up in a church that supported &#8220;traditional gender roles&#8221; for men and women, Rachel Held Evans takes us on a journey to investigate what &#8216;biblical womanhood&#8217; really might look like in the 21st Century. 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