Old Herb Lady
17th October 2012, 09:22 PM
(Christian feminist ?? I've never heard of that term before ! ) Yiiiikes. I think this woman is confused on some issues !
--Like the love for cooking is such an awful thing ? Or having long hair is torture ?
Strange girls, but feminists can crack me up sometimes ! C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S !
Christian Feminist lives Biblically for a Year
- Rachel Held Evans describes herself as a Christian feminist and she has gone to great lengths over the last year to test out the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible.
The 30-year-old blogger and author from Dayton, Tennessee has spent a year doing the following...
She slept in a tent outside of her house while she was having her period (Leviticus 15: verses 19-33).
She praised her husband at the city gates (Proverbs 31: 23).
She made her own clothes (Proverbs 31: 22).
And she even spent some time on the roof contemplating her contentious ways. (“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house.” — Proverbs 21:9.)
Evidently the last one was more for fun and to give herself some time alone to think.
“It was sort of like doing penance,” she says. “It was part of submitting to my husband, so I would spend time on the roof just seeing what it’s like to live in a house with me, a contentious woman. Now obviously that’s not in the Bible; that one was a definitely a stunt of my own making.”
Evans lives in a small community in the American Bible Belt, was raised as an evangelical, and she wanted to explore the idea of traditional Biblical womanhood and its meaning in modern society.
The conflict between conservative Christian and liberal feminist values may seem disparate beliefs that would hardly mesh, but she was drawn to the task and has been blogging about her exploits. A book is forthcoming in Autumn 2012.
“I really enjoy the contrast, conflict and the almost dissonance in scripture about women. I find that kind of encouraging because there’s not a single mould that women need to conform to. Really there’s no such thing as one biblical model for womanhood,” she says. “People are still trying to put (women) into categories and we don’t all fit. That’s true for the women in the Bible, too. They didn’t all fit easily either. On one hand, you’ve got Peter telling women to have a gentle and quiet spirit and, on the other hand, you have Jael who drove a tent peg into a guy’s skull, which is not exactly gentle and quiet.”
Evans was inspired by A.J. Jacobs’ book "The Year of Living Biblically". She loved the book, but felt that it would be very different if it was written from a female perspective. Conversations in her local evangelical culture made her want to challenge some of the assumptions about the ideal of Biblical womanhood.
She didn’t embrace polygamy however, which was a reality for many women in scripture.
The Search for Uncensored Feminist Truth (and Justice) is a dire one. At least 51% of the human population is being subjected to inequality, injustice and inhumane treatment. How can women stand back and do nothing when their fellow women are being oppressed and ignored by the powers that be?
In this journal I endeavour to bring forward (with facts and figures) the truth about how women are really treated in the world today, what we can do it about and how to combat injustice and lies that continues to plague women world wide.
http://feministtruths.blogspot.com/2011/10/christian-feminist-lives-biblically-for.html
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Woman tries living biblically
by Clint Cooper (http://gold-silver.us/staff/clint-cooper/)
Raised in an evangelical home, graduate of nondenominational evangelical Bryan College and living in the evangelical culture of small-town Dayton, Tenn., Rachel Held Evans realized something several years ago about her nearly seven-year marriage.
Despite the assumption that she and her husband would fall into traditional marriage roles as espoused by almost everyone around them, they instead had a very egalitarian partnership and worked best as a team.
"That was one of the things that led me to question [traditional roles of womanhood]," said Evans, a writer and popular blogger. "I wanted to sort of challenge that the Bible prescribes one right way to be a woman of faith."
That thought, and the inspiration of A.J. Jacobs' book "The Year of Living Biblically," led her to live a year strictly following the Bible's instructions for women and write about her experience in "A Year of Biblical Womanhood."
The book, published by Thomas Nelson Inc., will be available Oct. 30.
During the year, among other things, Evans grew her hair out, wore a head scarf when she prayed, adopted the regimens of cooking and sewing, camped in her front yard during her menstrual period and called her husband "master."
Using both Levitical purity laws found in the Old Testament and passages from the New Testament, she structured her year to focus on one particular virtue a month.
For Evans, the longer hair was the worst. After a year, her contemporarily short hair tumbled down her back.
"I know it's trite and vain," she said, "but it was the hair thing. I know it's supposed to be a woman's glory to have long hair [1 Corinthians 11], but my hair was not made to be long."
Evans also said it felt "weird and awkward"
for her and her husband to assume more traditional husband/wife roles. As part of the focus, though, she stood on the side of a public road with a sign that said
"Dan Is Awesome" and called him "master" for a week.
"We were both very weirded out by that one," she said. "There was no way I was going to do that for a month, much less a year."
When the year was up, Evans said, she was happy to set aside some things but was gratified at having learned others.
She, for instance, revisited some "difficult" stories in the Bible in which women deal with patriarchy, learned to love cooking, enjoyed travel to a Benedictine monastery, Bolivian pig farm and Amish school for various close-to-the-Bible experiences, befriended an Orthodox Jewish woman, interviewed a polygamist wife and grew to appreciate silence.
Many people who espouse the concept of biblical womanhood, said Evans, believe there is only one right way to be a woman of faith.
Unfortunately, she said, they're often "inherently selective, picking and choosing what parts of the Bible they want to follow." While insisting wives submit to their husbands, they don't ask them to wear scarves to pray, not wear jewelry and refrain from touching their husbands during their monthly periods.
Evans said even as she has changed her once conservative thinking about the role of women in marriage and in the church, she nevertheless respects any woman who chooses to have such a traditional lifestyle.
"True feminism is celebrating the very best gifts of women and how they use them," she said.
"If that's what's best for them and their family, I applaud them. I think that honors God."
If her book does anything, Evans said, she hopes it will help people understand the Bible doesn't give "one right [definition] of a woman of faith."
"It celebrates many," she said. "None of their lives look exactly the same. None have carbon-copy lives. They all honored God."
For Evans, she said, she looks to Jesus, and his commandments -- "that you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. ... And ... you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
"I guess that's biblical personhood," she said. "That's the closest to an answer, if you had to boil it down. Love is a lot harder and messier, but there's a lot more freedom there. Freedom is scary. That's why we have this whole biblical womanhood culture. We wish the Bible was a blueprint [for everything], but it's not a blueprint."
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/oct/13/woman-tries-living-biblically/
--Like the love for cooking is such an awful thing ? Or having long hair is torture ?
Strange girls, but feminists can crack me up sometimes ! C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S !
Christian Feminist lives Biblically for a Year
- Rachel Held Evans describes herself as a Christian feminist and she has gone to great lengths over the last year to test out the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible.
The 30-year-old blogger and author from Dayton, Tennessee has spent a year doing the following...
She slept in a tent outside of her house while she was having her period (Leviticus 15: verses 19-33).
She praised her husband at the city gates (Proverbs 31: 23).
She made her own clothes (Proverbs 31: 22).
And she even spent some time on the roof contemplating her contentious ways. (“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house.” — Proverbs 21:9.)
Evidently the last one was more for fun and to give herself some time alone to think.
“It was sort of like doing penance,” she says. “It was part of submitting to my husband, so I would spend time on the roof just seeing what it’s like to live in a house with me, a contentious woman. Now obviously that’s not in the Bible; that one was a definitely a stunt of my own making.”
Evans lives in a small community in the American Bible Belt, was raised as an evangelical, and she wanted to explore the idea of traditional Biblical womanhood and its meaning in modern society.
The conflict between conservative Christian and liberal feminist values may seem disparate beliefs that would hardly mesh, but she was drawn to the task and has been blogging about her exploits. A book is forthcoming in Autumn 2012.
“I really enjoy the contrast, conflict and the almost dissonance in scripture about women. I find that kind of encouraging because there’s not a single mould that women need to conform to. Really there’s no such thing as one biblical model for womanhood,” she says. “People are still trying to put (women) into categories and we don’t all fit. That’s true for the women in the Bible, too. They didn’t all fit easily either. On one hand, you’ve got Peter telling women to have a gentle and quiet spirit and, on the other hand, you have Jael who drove a tent peg into a guy’s skull, which is not exactly gentle and quiet.”
Evans was inspired by A.J. Jacobs’ book "The Year of Living Biblically". She loved the book, but felt that it would be very different if it was written from a female perspective. Conversations in her local evangelical culture made her want to challenge some of the assumptions about the ideal of Biblical womanhood.
She didn’t embrace polygamy however, which was a reality for many women in scripture.
The Search for Uncensored Feminist Truth (and Justice) is a dire one. At least 51% of the human population is being subjected to inequality, injustice and inhumane treatment. How can women stand back and do nothing when their fellow women are being oppressed and ignored by the powers that be?
In this journal I endeavour to bring forward (with facts and figures) the truth about how women are really treated in the world today, what we can do it about and how to combat injustice and lies that continues to plague women world wide.
http://feministtruths.blogspot.com/2011/10/christian-feminist-lives-biblically-for.html
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MORE:
Woman tries living biblically
by Clint Cooper (http://gold-silver.us/staff/clint-cooper/)
Raised in an evangelical home, graduate of nondenominational evangelical Bryan College and living in the evangelical culture of small-town Dayton, Tenn., Rachel Held Evans realized something several years ago about her nearly seven-year marriage.
Despite the assumption that she and her husband would fall into traditional marriage roles as espoused by almost everyone around them, they instead had a very egalitarian partnership and worked best as a team.
"That was one of the things that led me to question [traditional roles of womanhood]," said Evans, a writer and popular blogger. "I wanted to sort of challenge that the Bible prescribes one right way to be a woman of faith."
That thought, and the inspiration of A.J. Jacobs' book "The Year of Living Biblically," led her to live a year strictly following the Bible's instructions for women and write about her experience in "A Year of Biblical Womanhood."
The book, published by Thomas Nelson Inc., will be available Oct. 30.
During the year, among other things, Evans grew her hair out, wore a head scarf when she prayed, adopted the regimens of cooking and sewing, camped in her front yard during her menstrual period and called her husband "master."
Using both Levitical purity laws found in the Old Testament and passages from the New Testament, she structured her year to focus on one particular virtue a month.
For Evans, the longer hair was the worst. After a year, her contemporarily short hair tumbled down her back.
"I know it's trite and vain," she said, "but it was the hair thing. I know it's supposed to be a woman's glory to have long hair [1 Corinthians 11], but my hair was not made to be long."
Evans also said it felt "weird and awkward"
for her and her husband to assume more traditional husband/wife roles. As part of the focus, though, she stood on the side of a public road with a sign that said
"Dan Is Awesome" and called him "master" for a week.
"We were both very weirded out by that one," she said. "There was no way I was going to do that for a month, much less a year."
When the year was up, Evans said, she was happy to set aside some things but was gratified at having learned others.
She, for instance, revisited some "difficult" stories in the Bible in which women deal with patriarchy, learned to love cooking, enjoyed travel to a Benedictine monastery, Bolivian pig farm and Amish school for various close-to-the-Bible experiences, befriended an Orthodox Jewish woman, interviewed a polygamist wife and grew to appreciate silence.
Many people who espouse the concept of biblical womanhood, said Evans, believe there is only one right way to be a woman of faith.
Unfortunately, she said, they're often "inherently selective, picking and choosing what parts of the Bible they want to follow." While insisting wives submit to their husbands, they don't ask them to wear scarves to pray, not wear jewelry and refrain from touching their husbands during their monthly periods.
Evans said even as she has changed her once conservative thinking about the role of women in marriage and in the church, she nevertheless respects any woman who chooses to have such a traditional lifestyle.
"True feminism is celebrating the very best gifts of women and how they use them," she said.
"If that's what's best for them and their family, I applaud them. I think that honors God."
If her book does anything, Evans said, she hopes it will help people understand the Bible doesn't give "one right [definition] of a woman of faith."
"It celebrates many," she said. "None of their lives look exactly the same. None have carbon-copy lives. They all honored God."
For Evans, she said, she looks to Jesus, and his commandments -- "that you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. ... And ... you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
"I guess that's biblical personhood," she said. "That's the closest to an answer, if you had to boil it down. Love is a lot harder and messier, but there's a lot more freedom there. Freedom is scary. That's why we have this whole biblical womanhood culture. We wish the Bible was a blueprint [for everything], but it's not a blueprint."
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/oct/13/woman-tries-living-biblically/