TItle Tuesday: A Year of Biblical Womanhood

Welcome to  Title Tuesday, my favorite day of the week! This day is dedicated to book suggestions, news, cartoons, and reviews. For 2020 I decided to structure my book reviews by breaking each month into topics. You can find my topics list here. This month we are covering womanhood. So lets jump in!

Today I want to talk about A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master' by Rachel Held Evans. This book was given to me as a gift by a friend who thought I might find it interesting. 

I can honestly say that a the book was really funny. Evans has a great way of writing that is humorous and makes you feel like you just sat down at your favorite coffee shop with a best friend. 

However, aside from the humor there wasn't much redeemable about this book in my opinion. 

Evans said that she was doing this as an experiment as an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation of the Christian woman's life. The problem here is that Evans followed both the Old Testament laws and things laid out in the New Testament . This is a problem because Christ fulfilled the Old Testament law (if you don't know what I am talking about check out this article) freeing us from things like not eating shelfish. The correspondence with an Orthodox Jewish Woman is great but really has no bearing on Christian life since the Christian Old Testament and the Torah are two different things. It seems like rather than really understanding what women are called to do, she wanted to do the sensational parts to satisfy a publisher.  

Overall, I give A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master' by Rachel Held Evans a 0 star review. It isn't theologically sound, and in fact it almost seems like the goal was to make Christian women resent the Bible and the historical treatment of women rather than to celebrate the liberation and freedom that comes from Christ.