The New Eve
Author Robert Lewis stops by the Inside LifeWay studio to talk about his book The New Eve: Choosing God’s Best For Your Life. In the book, Lewis discusses five “bold moves” women should make in their pursuit of godly womanhood.
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Here are a few endorsements of the book:
“I never thought a book written by a man could give me such an eye-opening picture of who I should be as a woman.”
—Shaunti Feldhahn, bestselling author of For Women Only
“Women today have unprecedented opportunities and possibilities before them, but this great new freedom also brings a new dilemma: how to make the best choices for their own good and that of their families. In The New Eve, Robert Lewis gives women of all ages a picture of what God intended for us from the beginning and a clear vision for how we make choices that liberate us to live with purposeful direction. No matter your stage in life, all women can benefit from his coaching. I highly recommend it.”
— Barbara Rainey, co-founder of FamilyLife
“Robert Lewis sounds a much-needed message as he calls women to walk in the feminine freedom and fullness that result from embracing our core biblical callings. The New Eve dispels the current cultural fog regarding what it means to be a woman, by looking to God’s design as revealed in the Scripture, for wisdom, insight, and direction.”
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss, author and host of Revive Our Hearts radio
Passionate Housewives Desperate For God
First Lady Of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Recommends Controversial New Book On Homemaking,Titled “Passionate Housewives Desperate For God”
Mrs. Paige Patterson Said: “Give Us Passionate Women Who Are Desperate for God and We Will Change the World!”
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) December 18, 2007 — An article in Family Circle magazine recently extolled the virtues of having a parent stay home. Benefits the article cited include a smoothly run household, home-cooked meals, washed and folded laundry, and children who are educated, read to and prepared for life. The article’s punch line revealed a sign of the times or what some consider the new normal–the stay-at-home dad.
Author Jennie Chancey of Birmingham, AL shared the story during a national radio interview (Listen Here,http://www.visionforum.com/Press/PHW/) promoting her new book Passionate Housewives Desperate for God (Vision Forum, Oct. 30, 2007), which she co-authored with Stacy McDonald of Peoria, IL. “It s ironic today that our culture can praise a homemaker to the heavens as long as it’s a dad,” Chancey observed.
Today, couples with the wife bringing home most or all of the bacon have become increasingly more common, especially among the nation’s twenty- and thirty-somethings. Among college-educated women with infant children in the U.S., 63 percent worked in the labor force in 2002 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005). Three out of four households today have two working parents and most working adults find it challenging to take care of both their family and work obligations. Some 70 percent of married mothers work outside the home and are challenged to balance work and family early on in the parenting journey (Families and Work Institute). There were 5.3 million stay-at-home moms in 2003, while 39 percent of these mothers were under age 35 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005).
Passionate Housewives Desperate for God was not written to condemn working women, Chancey and McDonald state. However, the book was written to dispel harmful myths about modern housewives. “They picture this new, awful stereotype that is being pushed in modern television programming. Women who are at home fulltime are secretly bored, angry and frustrated, and they take it out on their children in private, and they take it out on their husbands by being adulteresses. And, this is really supposed to be the secret life of the American housewife,” Chancey continued.
The book advances the biblical model for womanhood as outlined in such passages as Titus 2 and Proverbs 31. The Proverbs 31 woman–one of the clearest descriptions of God’s design for woman–is not a mindless drone, but an industrious steward who looks well to the ways of her family and helps her husband manage a thriving household economy.
McDonald spoke to the heart of the two-year collaboration which she and Chancey wrote from their homes while raising 18 children between them. “We wanted women to see that it’s not some kind of female purgatory but a blessing to bring up our children. We are bringing up the next generation for the glory of God.”
Most recently, Passionate Housewives has found an ally in Mrs. Paige Patterson, whose husband is well-known in Southern Baptist circles having twice served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Patterson is currently serving as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This fall, Dr. and Mrs. Patterson launched a new academic program at Southwestern to reinforce biblical gender roles, including a controversial course on homemaking available only to women.
Mrs. Patterson wrote in her endorsement: “The biblical paradigm for womanhood is marked by clear, though often hidden, distinctives. Especially are these noted in the Proverbs 31 description of the ‘woman of strength.’ PASSIONATE HOUSEWIVES DESPERATE FOR GOD provides the bookends for the life of this remarkable woman–on the one hand, she is passionate, enthusiastic about everything to which she puts her hand, even the most mundane tasks in her home; on the other hand, she is totally committed to what God wants her to be and to do without being swayed by culture or peers. She makes no apology about devoting her foremost energies and greatest creativity to her own family and household, and in so doing she is confident of offering her best and most precious gift to the Lord! Give us passionate women who are desperate for God, and we will change the world!”
In looking to the future, the Passionate Housewives authors also send a strong message to the next generation. “We really need to encourage young women. The ages 12 and 13 are a big time in a young girls life. This is a time like no other in your life. Look to godly women in your church, your mom and your grandmother, and ask questions. You need to cultivate those relationships because they are priceless. You can’t function in the next phase of your life if you haven’t trained properly and built the foundation right now.”
McDonald is the author of Raising Maidens of Virtue: A Study of Feminine Loveliness for Mothers and Daughters. She and her husband, Pastor James McDonald operate Family Reformation Ministries (www.familyreformation.org).
Chancey is founder of Ladies Against Feminism (www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com). She and her husband Matthew parent and homeschool their brood of eight children.
For information about Passionate Housewives Desperate for God and its authors, visit www.passionatehousewives.blogspot and www.visionforum.com. Passionate Housewives Desperate for God is available for purchase in bookstores and online.
Women’s Bible Studies
The following are books used in the Westminster Theological Seminary Women’s Weekend Seminary classes during the Spring of 2007:
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