The Gaineses’ brand often seems to valorize aspects of traditional gender roles. “It’s like Waco’s Disneyland,” Barr said. We walked past a line of hungry tourists waiting outside a bakery that sells pastel-frosted cupcakes, and by boxwood hedges studded with lavender. One afternoon in May, Beth Allison Barr, a medieval-history professor at Baylor University, who studies the role of women in evangelical Christianity, visited the store on a kind of research trip. In 2017, a market-research blog found that they were some of the most popular celebrities among faith-based consumers. The Gaineses have built a commercial empire called Magnolia, by selling the trappings of a trendy, Christian life style. The silos form part of an open-air mall erected by Chip and Joanna Gaines, the husband-and-wife stars of “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home,” a popular reality show.

Join Evans as she dives deep into the lives of the women we meet in Scripture and redefines what it means to live biblically.In the past several years, two battered cottonseed silos in Waco, Texas, surrounded by food trucks selling sweet tea and energy balls, have become a pilgrimage site for Christian homemakers from around the country, among others. 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