A Year of Biblical Womanhood

I want to break bread with Rachel.

I just finished, and I feel refreshed, as if I just had the most rejuvenating fellowship. Not with finger foods and gossip and complaints veiled as concerns, but early church gathering of The Way style. I wasn't even part of the book, yet I feel celebrated, as a woman daily fighting chronic illness, as a woman of valor.
I felt especially drawn closer by the chapter of the veneration of motherhood as the goal and role of the Christian Proverbs 31 woman. My illnesses have taken that ability away from me–unable to conceive, too sick to adopt. Rachel's study, words, and bright, feisty spirit showed me that I am no less for that, but that childless women played pivotal roles in God's plan and Jesus' ministry!
Should Team Dan and Rachel welcome a newcomer to break bread, I shall come bearing my own gifts: knitting needles and stories of growing up in a tiny Southern Episcopal church.

This is how you should feel after reading a book, as if you are a better person for it!

Rating this book makes it difficult for many reasons. If I rate it 5 star, would that mean that I agree with it and if I rate it 1, that I don't? Well, it depends on how one looks at it. It's a book that makes me think, question and not accept things just because that's how evangelical churches tell me to. If you like to go in more depth with things, wonder why “this or that”, you might at least find it interesting. I totally don't agree with quite a few of her conclusions but many issues that she brings might at least be worth to form an opinion about. Lots of unbelievers or secular Christians (if there is such a thing) might think as she does and as believers, we should have an good foundation for our faith that we can clearly share with others. I loved the different perspective she brought into the pictures, from Amish to Jews, Quakers and anything in between. Despite not agreeing with her in everything, might I say quite some things, I still plan on reading her other books. Her writing is if nothing else entertaining, quirky and thought provoking.