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A Year of Biblical Womanhood How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master

Rachel Held Evans

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? Strong-willed and independent, Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experim...

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It documented an experiment of taking what the Bible says about women literally for a year to see what conclusions that leads to.

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I was walking through the New York Public Library one day when I came across a book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans.

— Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Second Acts

Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Second Acts

It documented an experiment of taking what the Bible says about women literally for a year to see what conclusions that leads to.

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I was walking through the New York Public Library one day when I came across a book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans.

Her book showed the ways that we often have to read the Bible in context and that when we read the Bible literally, it leads to really absurd conclusions when we do that all the time.

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