A response to Rachel Held Evans’ piece: You Don’t Hate Me. You Hate My Brand.
No, people aren’t reducible to a brand. But to complain that people are judging you by your creative output is arrogant and naïve. Don’t want people to criticize your theology? Don’t publicly take theological stands. Don’t want to deal with “2.5 gazillion responses on the internet?” Don’t write for CNN. Don’t want to be judged by your writing? Don’t write.
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Following closely in the footsteps of A.J. Jacobs’ 2007 book The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, blogger and writer Rachel Held Evans offers her own contribution to the genre of reality-show inspired memoirs in the unimaginatively titled A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master.”
Based upon Evans’ year-long exploration of what it means — and doesn’t mean — to be a “biblical” woman, A Year of Biblical Womanhood provides a powerful polemic against prevailing views of gender roles within the evangelical subculture. (more…)