![]() ![]() With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. ![]() Join her as she wrestles with difficult passages of scripture that portray misogyny and violence against women. Learn the insights she receives from an ongoing correspondence with an Orthodox Jewish woman, and find out what she discovers from her exchanges with a polygamist wife. See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as “master” and “praises him at the city gate” with a homemade sign. It means growing out her hair, making her own clothes, covering her head, obeying her husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her period. Pursuing a different virtue each month, Evans learns the hard way that her quest for biblical womanhood requires more than a “gentle and quiet spirit” (1 Peter 3:4). Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible for a year. Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn’t sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment-a year of biblical womanhood. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thankfully, this book takes place in a self-contained world, and I had no trouble adjusting to the world of Pratchett’s creation. This month’s pick in my book club, Going Postal was my first foray into Terry Pratchett’s insanely popular Discworld series. Normally jumping into a series in the thirty-third installment would make me insufferably cringy, but I consoled myself that this novel is the first one centered around Moist Von Lipwig. And there’s a possibility that he is hearing whispers coming from the abandoned letters piled up in the post office. And he thinks there may be someone trying to kill him. To make matter worse, he must compete against the Grand Trunks, which have a monopoly on communication in the city. ![]() ![]() He finds the post office covered with pigeon droppings and undelivered mail. Yet somehow he finds himself alive and working in the government as Postmaster General. At least, his alias is dead, hanged for committing crimes against the city of Ankh-Morpork. ![]() ![]() A few double-page spreads add emphasis and variety: the drifting wounded manatee, two night views with the baby and, finally, the pair returning to their home, where a new sign says “Slow down! Manatees.” Though fiction, the story was inspired by an actual event, and the author’s customary attention to environmental detail makes it an excellent companion to his All About Manatees (2007) and A Manatee Morning (2000). ![]() On the text side, tiny insets offer other scenes from the manatee’s natural environment. His pastel acrylic paintings stretch across the gutters, set off from the text by a wavy ribbon of color implying the separation of the manatee’s watery world. No fault is implied indeed, in an afterword, Arnosky stresses that boaters are usually quite careful, but accidents do happen. This straightforward account is gently told. A pregnant Florida manatee, accidentally injured by a passing motorboat, is rescued and rehabilitated in a tank on land, where she gives birth before both are released back into their canal home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chen aimed to examine the living conditions of these youths, and found in his creative research that he could relate to the feelings of uncertainty and loss that his subjects felt. What was once the wealthiest region of China due to its heavy industries, is now renowned for its declining population and recession. Shortly after, Chen won the Youth Award for Photographers at the 2019 Lian Zhou Foto with his project Freezing Land.įreezing Land is about the youth living in northeast China’s countryside. At PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2019, his works were displayed by UP Gallery (Hsinchu City) and Three Shadows +3 Gallery (Beijing & Xiamen). When discussing the leading group of young Chinese photographers, his name ought to be referenced. In the past few years, Chen Ronghui has made remarkable achievements. ![]() |