As a woman and an evangelical Christian, Rachel Held Evans wanted to know just what being a "biblical woman" meant. She spent a year documenting... 'Biblical Womanhood': A Year Of Living By The Book ...

White evangelical women are often taught that their calling is to be passive in the church, to be submissive to their husbands and to stay out of the pulpit. History, though, says otherwise. In her ...

"Biblical womanhood is Christian patriarchy," writes historian Beth Allison Barr in The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. The author's latest book, ...

Living like a biblical woman, as Christian author Rachel Held Evans discovered, can be a real pain in thy rump. That's especially the case during a woman's "unclean" time of the month, when sitting on ...

(RNS) — The author and historian talked to Religion News Service about where the idea of biblical womanhood comes from, what she believes the Bible actually has to say about the role of women and what ...

Emerging from the narrow entrance to a cave south of Jerusalem, scholar Joan Taylor found herself saying a blessing for Salome. Salome is described in the Gospels as following and ministering to Jesus ...

(RNS) — In her forthcoming memoir, Shannon Harris documents her journey from marrying purity culture celebrity Josh Harris to finding herself outside of her marriage and the church. (RNS) — When ...

On the second day of her husband’s impeachment trial, for which she was required to be present but could not vote, Senator Angela Paxton tweeted a photo of herself in the Senate chamber. In it, she’s ...