![]() And disarming – because I thought if I come at this from a humorous angle that would probably be the best way to change the conversation, and bring up some difficult topics in a way that people enjoy. It’s meant to be playful, funny, and self-depreciating. I also wanted to help women who felt like they were always falling short of that ideal, to feel like they’re valuable and worthy just as they are. I wanted to start a conversation about what we mean when we talk about biblical womanhood. I took a page from A J Jacobs, who wrote The Year of Living Biblically, and decided to try a year of biblical womanhood to explore the idea and to make the point that none of us are practicing biblical womanhood 100%. I saw it being misused to keep women in their place and prevent women from taking leadership. Growing up in the Bible Belt in the US, I always heard about biblical womanhood, but nobody could really agree on what it meant. Ruth Garner and Lucinda Borkett-Jones spoke to her about the project. ![]() Her latest book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, charts her controversial project to follow as many of the Bible’s mandates for women as possible over the course of a year, which results in covering her head to pray, calling her husband ‘master’ and turning Proverbs 31 into a to-do list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Held Evans is a prolific American blogger.
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