a year of biblical womanhood by rachel held evans

1 This, and her final work, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again (Nelson Books, 2018), made her a Christian internet mainstay. Her next book, Searching for Sunday (Nelson Books, 2015), arose from her exit from evangelicalism and her reception into the Episcopal church. Many of the tributes to her on social media referred back to her as the Proverbs 31 Woman of Valor, a term she popularized in the course of that project. In her second book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Thomas Nelson, 2012), she undertook to observe all the biblical commands regarding women - or as many of them as she could realistically manage - to their literal extreme. Her first book, Evolving in Monkey Town (Zondervan, 2010), articulates the doubts about creation and hell that ultimately destroyed her childhood faith.

She was immediately and intensely mourned on Twitter, her preferred social media platform and a Christian subcultural space she helped shape.Įvans rose to prominence in the early 2000s as a blogger. She left behind her husband, two very young children, and a theological legacy that will take years to unravel. Join Evans as she dives deep into the lives of the women we meet in Scripture and redefines what it means to live biblically.Early Saturday morning, May 5, 2019, Rachel Held Evans, only thirty-seven, died suddenly after a brief hospitalization. developing a 'Biblical Woman's Ten Commandments' to serve as a guide for daily living.focusing on virtues like domesticity, obedience, beauty, submission, and grace.applying the Bible's teachings to day-to-day life, sometimes to literal extremes.exploring what a 'woman's place' is according to the Scriptures.In A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Evans shares her courageous and often humorous journey of: She consults with women who practice these ancient biblical mandates in their own lives-from an Orthodox Jewish woman who changed the way Evans reads the Bible to an Amish community that taught her the true meaning of modesty. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decided to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible for a full year.Īlong the way, Evans explores the rich heritage of scriptural heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor that we come to know in the Bible. Strong-willed and independent, Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment-a year of biblical womanhood. Have you ever wondered what God truly expects of women? Is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Does the Bible's idea of womanhood have a place in modern Christianity? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a year-long study of what it means to live by the standards of biblical womanhood.

A year of biblical womanhood by rachel held evans