I am reading a wonderful book right now about mothers and daughters by Lisa Graham McMinn. The writer looks at mothering from a different angle than does Sally Clarkson in her parenting books ( Seasons of a Mother’s Heart, The Mission of Motherhood). I find McMinn’s book liberating and challenging and wish I had found it earlier. She tackles issues such as women’s roles in the church, giving our daughters a voice, and etc. I like the way she deals with feminism in contemporary society in a manner that is neither neither demonizes nor blindly embraces it.
I’d read “When Life and beliefs collide” earlier by Carolyn Custis James which looked at women and theology. That book, I would say, is THE book of the year for me, the book that I think every woman ( and man) shold read. It made me want to shout out the good news from the pulpit or street corners, “woman, your name is ezer!” Ezer, writes Carolyn, was the word the God used when He described Eve as a “help meet” and not “help mate” as commonly thought. The word “ezer” is used in the Bible to describe God as “deliverer”, “helper”. It is a word that conjures meanings related to strength, to boldness and to faith. I love the way this definition informs my understanding of submission, homemaking and parenthood. I love the liberation this understanding unleashes upon debates concerning women and work, women and the church, women and influence.
I have yet to finish Lisa G.M.’s book and when I do, I suspect I will want to shout it from the mountaintops too- this is good news!
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