Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World

Carolyn McCulley’s book is now available; the above is the intro movie that was made to promote it.

I’ve been looking forward to reading it for a good while now, ever since reading one of the historical excerpts she posted on her blog. I have shied away from women’s history because it almost always is taught by a feminist with a skewed picture of Christianity and its teachings (as well as a failure to realise that good teachings may be badly implemented by sinful people), so I’m glad to be able to read a history of feminism from a solid Christian perspective.

Interestingly, one of the commenters on Justin Taylor’s blog (whose post gets a hat tip for prompting this post), said she thinks that McCulley draws the wrong conclusions on Christian feminism. She didn’t make clear if she got that from the movie or the book, but it would make far more sense for it to be the latter, as I really don’t think you can say that from the movie — mostly because nothing is said about Christian feminism in the film. (And I should note that as the book was actually relased on 1 October — a fact that I’d missed — it’s entirely possible for the book to have inspired the comment.) Obviously, not having read the book, I can’t comment on the comment that much more, but it will be interesting to see if she’s right or not…

On Palin and Motherhood and the Politics of Family

Over at the Contemporary Calvinist, Lee Shelton linked to a blog post from Voddie Baucham entitled “Did McCain Make a Pro-Family VP Pick?”

At “And Can it Be?”, Michael DeBusk made his own musings on the implications of McCain’s pick of Governor Palin for his VP — “Having it All”: Sarah Palin and the Myth of the Feminist Vision.

The other day, I had my own thoughts along those same lines, so it was interesting to see other bloggers pick up the theme. But I will leave it at the above links since I dislike redundancy and I still have more Hebrew to get through.