Bessey points out that the cultural and societal environment the various writers of the Bible were surrounded by inevitably influenced their writings. She continues to clarify: "It's not necessary to subscribe to all the diverse-and contrary-opinions within feminism to call oneself a feminist." Like, Bessey, I identify as a feminist "precisely because of my life-long commitment to Jesus and his Way."Īs Rachel Held Evans does in her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Ms. Many Christians, and many conservatives, have a knee-jerk revulsion when they hear the dreaded "f-word" feminist, but early on in her book, Bessey declares, "Most of what has passed for a description of feminism is fearmongering misinformation" (something which can also be said, ironically, of Mormonism). In Jesus Feminist, Sarah Bessey speaks with courage and conviction on a topic near and dear to my heart.
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