God's Word to Women

I've found a very interesting web site tonite, God's Word To Women. I haven't gotten to read everything there yet, but am finding that it scratches an itch that I've had.

The itch is one having to do with how women are regarded within popular Christian doctrine, practice, and culture.

For many years I have noticed that the very popular books for Christian women (particularly for wives) feature heavy-handed negative messages and are very harsh in their teaching that women are basically nothing, deserve nothing, and exist mainly to carry out their husband's wishes. It amazes me how fast women will line up to buy these books, and how quick they are to accept that everything within them that they have to fight in order to accept these teaching and live them out is completely wrong and sinful.

It's not just my female sensibilities that are bruised when I read these anti-woman messages. It's my follower-of-Jesus-Christ sensibilities that cannot reconcile them with anything I know of Him.

I've not recently been at a place in life where I've had loads of time to delve into the Bible to try to sort out all of these ideas and feelings. I've just carried a little belief in me that the way we hear it is not really all that there is to it. This web site looks like it might have some answers for me, or at least some direction to continue on with.

I hope that Razorbackmama will have some time to check into the site. She did such a good job with her very thorough and sound critique of Created to Be His Help Meet (gag, wretch) that I would love to see what she comes up with about this. What do you say, Kirstin?