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Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women Paperback – November 5, 2013

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Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.

A freedom song for the church.

Sarah Bessey didn’t ask for Jesus to come in and mess up all her ideas about a woman’s place in the world and in the church. But patriarchy, she came to learn, was not God’s dream for humanity.

Bessey engages critically with Scripture in this gentle and provocative love letter to the Church. Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.

It’s at once a call to find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ, and a very personal and moving story of how Jesus made a feminist out of her.
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Bessey speaks directly and compassionately to her fellow Evangelical Christians, arguing the case for viewing Jesus as unbounded by gender considerations in valuing the worthiness of humans. Bringing an informed but nonacademic historical perspective to her reading of the Bible and using relevant examples from her personal life, both as a church member and a part of contemporary Western culture, she observes that biblical events and traditional Evangelical interpretations of them are not always what they seem. Never strident, Bessy’s approach is instead solid and clear. Although apostolic admonitions read without the contexts she proposes might bolster sexism, given a larger frame of reference, they fall to her arguments. An excellent choice for a church discussion group as well as an important viewpoint to include in public library religion collections. --Francisca Goldsmith

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"Bessey’s warm and intimate writing sets this book apart from others focused on similar topics. Her approach and style offer a unique addition to literature on women’s role in Christian churches." ― Publisher's Weekly

"Never strident, Bessy's approach is instead solid and clear....An excellent choice." ―
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"
Jesus Feminist is a must read." -- Glennon Doyle, New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior

"I want to write like Sarah Bessey. What she does with words is extraordinary, and the topic she's chosen is so deeply important.
Jesus Feminist is a beautiful, challenging, rich, gutsy book, an absolute must-read." -- Shauna Niequist, author of Bread & Wine

“I’ve read countless books addressing the place of women in the kingdom, and I have never, ever read anything so lovely, so generous, profound and humble as
Jesus Feminist." -- Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author of Of Mess and Moxie

"Sarah Bessey makes her case—not as a fire-breathing debater—but as a woman utterly captivated by Jesus who will stop at nothing to follow him." -- Carolyn Custis James, author of Half the Church

"A powerful and empowering narrative that both men and women will find compelling and readable." -- Tony Jones, theologian and author of The New Christians

“I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be. I love books that help me see things I'd never noticed before—in life, in myself, in others, in the Bible, in Jesus. I love writing that makes reading enjoyable and easy, because I know how hard it is to write that way. For these reasons and more, I love
Jesus Feminist. It's not ‘just a woman's book.’ In fact, it's the kind of book that will help both women and men see how unhelpful that distinction is.” -- Brian D. McLaren, author, speaker, activist

"
Jesus Feminist is a critically important work; a must-read for everyone in the Church." -- Nish Weiseth, author of Speak

“With
Jesus Feminist, Bessey is a modern-day Moses, seeking to not only free a Church held captive by dogma but also to redeem generations of women who have been stifled and silenced far too long.” -- Matthew Paul Turner, author of Our Great Big American God

Jesus Feminist is a revelation, a genre-defying tour-de-force that soars above the caustic rhetoric that has defined these conversations in the Church.” -- Jonathan Martin, author of Prototype

"Sarah's voice is prophetic and she will free other women to speak and act with power, love, and courage." -- Adam S. McHugh, author of Introverts in the Church

"With grace, humility, and confidence (even in the unknown), Sarah Bessey's
Jesus Feminist masterfully humanizes one of the most controversial topics of the day." -- Andrew Marin, author of Love Is an Orientation

"
Jesus Feminist is a book that needed to be written! With honest vulnerability and a strong biblical foundation, Sarah Bessey shares her very personal journey and insight regarding the roles and qualifications for women in ministry." -- Helen Burns, author of Miracle in a Mother’s Hug and What Dads Need to Know About Daughters and Moms Need to Know About Sons

“Sarah Bessey makes me want to get to know Jesus all over again, but this time specifically through my womanly flesh, engaging God with the glorious gift of
being a woman rather than in spite of it.” -- Enuma Okoro, author of Silence and Reluctant Pilgrim

Jesus Feminist summons the Church to join in a conversation about women in God’s Kingdom. Sarah Bessey disarms us and then hands us a cup of tea. She creates a safe space for deep discussion, gentle reflection and holy imagination. She calls, converses and commissions us into the wild ways of Jesus. This is a holy invitation for all my sisters to come to the table at last. A must read!” -- Kelley Nikondeha, co-founder of Amahoro Africa

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Howard Books; Original edition (November 5, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476717257
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476717258
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.38 inches
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SARAH BESSEY is the editor of the New York Times, Globe and Mail, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling book, "A Rhythm of Prayer." She is also the author of three popular and critically acclaimed books: "Miracles and Other Reasonable Things;" "Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith;" and "Jesus Feminist." Sarah leads Evolving Faith, a conference and community for wanderers and wonderers. She lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband and their four children. You can find her online at sarahbessey.com.

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Even though I’m a strong, out-spoken female leader, I’ve not been comfortable calling myself a “feminist,” mostly due to some of the portrayals of feminists as man haters. After reading this book, with Bessey’s research into both the Old Testament women who “broke the rules but honored God,” her careful review of the way Jesus himself talked with and treated women as equals, I’m comfortable calling myself a “Jesus Feminist,” which Beasley describes well. Her message - for both women and men - is for us to “Stop holding your breath, hiding your gifts, dulling your roar, distracting your soul, stilling your hands, quieting your voice, and satiating your hunger with the lesser things of this world.” Amen to that.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2014
    Sara Bessey's _ Jesus Feminist _ is a good read. It is at heart a memoir of one woman's walk of faith and family. But it is also demonstrates something that a lot of North American Christians need to learn and then practice. Bessey has spent much of her life engaging the Bible and Christianity in one particular area, that is, how women fit into, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, “Christian life, the universe, and everything.” She obviously loves the Bible, and spends time with it every single day. But I think she explains very nicely why it is just not possible, and it never has been, to go by any kind of simple “all I need is the Bible” approach to life and faith. And she explains how she came to understand this, for me at least, most engagingly.

    There are a lot of good quotes in this book that need to be pondered and prayed over. I love this one, because she's right, and she puts it so well:

    People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is a rainbow arch across
    a stormy sky. Our sacred book is not an indexed answer book or life manual:
    it is also a grand story, mystery, invitation, truth and wisdom, and a passionate
    love letter. (26%)

    Bessey rejects the idea of “the Bible alone,” one of the cornerstones of modern Christian fundamentalism, very explicitly in this book. Our faith, she insists along with a lot of church mothers and fathers—my way of stating this, not hers—is built on the four pillars of Scripture, church history and tradition, reason, and experience. That means, of course, that we have to read the Bible, like we read everything, critically. That is, we have to look behind the words, for two very important reasons. First, most of us are reading words that have been translated through two or three languages at least, and none of them even remotely from an “original” manuscript. Second, we are reading about two very different times and places, the Ancient Near East of the Old Testament and the Greco-Roman world of the New Testament. She is right to insist that we are always interpreting Scripture in all its variety and context. She rightly notes, by way of the work of John Stackhouse in reference to 1 Timothy 2:11-15, that there are a lot of texts that simply cannot be definitively explained. We keep working on those anyway, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

    This would be a great read for any church book discussion, and I'm not just talking about “women's” groups either. Of course, that is the whole point of this book: not only remembering that the ladies exist (to harken back to a far too under-appreciated Founding Mother, Abigail Adams), but also putting them in their proper place. (That's my attempt to be clever, not Sarah Bessey's). Some of the title chapters hint at just what great material you will find here: “The Silent Women of Paul,” “Dancing Warriors,” “Patron Saints, Spiritual Midwives, and 'Biblical' Womanhood,” and “Reclaiming the Church Ladies.” As important as it is is for some women to read about these things, its even more important, perhaps, that men read them. The important lesson, she teaches us, is that we should be more concerned about Biblical “personhood.”

    When I read a book like this, I always make note of key words and phrases. Sarah Bessey includes many of my favorites here. Work of justice and mercy. Labor of reconciliation and redemption. Grace and kindness. Unity beyond conformity. Freedom over fear. Life over death. Mess of friendship and community. Bessey tells us there are three things in particular that we need to practice as we follow the way of Jesus: gentleness and beauty, faithfulness and kindness, and patience and peace. But at the same time, she tells us, we should be trying to be more like Jesus where we are, with the people around us, and in the context of whatever it is we do. The important work for each of us is in the small operations that we engage in, whether inside the home or outside of it.

    I will let Sarah Bessey herself explain what she means by “Jesus Feminist,” because she does it so well. And I will say one more time, she explains lots of things very well. I will be reading a number of the sources in the bibliography in the months and years to come.

    This is a book that a lot of Christians need to read.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014
    I'm one of the people who does not like the word "feminist" because I think the word "Christian" entails everything that Sarah Bessey says a feminist is. If a person is a Christian, it seems to me that we would automatically be pro-women to the fullest in the Lord.

    Though I was turned off by the title, I sure do like Sarah Bessey. She's a beautiful writer and seems to be a very lovely person. She's so comfortable with herself, so agile in her ability to describe things vividly, and she's funny. Plus she does her homework. She's not a scholar, but she's a very responsible writer who has done research and thought through her points such that her argument, as a whole, is cogent.

    What I'd say is that she writes as well--or better--than John Eldredge, but she conveys to women and men a very different message than he does. (NOTE: I don't agree with Sarah Bessey or John Eldredge either one at every point.)

    Still, I think this book is worth reading. Here are a few of my favorite lines from Sarah B.'s book:

    "Life in Christ is not meant to mirror life in a Greco-Roman culture. An ancient Middle Eastern culture is not our standard. We are not meant to adopt the world of Luther's Reformation or the culture of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening or even 1950s America as our standard for righteousness. The culture, past or present, is not the point: Jesus and His Kingdom come, His will be done, right now--that is the point."

    "I'm not quite sure when the Church decided that 'biblical' was the perfect adjective for subjective roles and situations. I don't think it's helped us. Usually when people use that phrase, they are thinking more about June Cleaver than the early church's Lydia, described as being 'diligent in business,' or perhaps a sanitized sitcom society that never actually existed instead of Deborah, the military strategist of Israel, let alone Junia, a respected apostle alongside Paul."

    "We are not biblical women because we achieve status as a stay-at-home mother and home-cook every meal."

    "You are not forgotten. . . . 'this resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life ... '"

    "That is why waiting does not diminish us . . . We are enlarged in the waiting."

    "And this is where I learned that sometimes our most holy mountain-moving faith looks more like spending our whole lives making that mountain move, rock by rock, unsexy day after daily day, casting the mountain to the sea stone by stone rather than watching a mountain suddenly rise up and cast itself."

    "I think the Kingdom is in every good and perfect moment in our lives, because these moments serve as a taste, just a small taste, of what God truly intends for us. It's in our bonfire for dancing and laughter. It's friends who show up when it matters. It's making your tinies laugh. It's sleeping babes curled into their mother's breast and the heft of holding another soul."

    These excerpts don't show the fullness of Sarah Bessey's winsome personality or intriguing personal life or the few theological mistakes I believe she makes, but they show her language of "we and us," not "us vs. them," and they make life-giving points. Even her worst critics should be able to imbibe and enjoy the truths she presents so gently.

    I don't technically consider myself an egalitarian, but put me on the list of people who adore Sarah Bessey. The whole evangelical movement could gain from sitting together at her bonfire.
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  • Mrs.Geeky
    5.0 out of 5 stars hervorragend
    Reviewed in Germany on February 21, 2016
    Ein Buch, das nicht nach abendländischer Tradition fragt, sondern versucht, die ursprünglichen Gedanken der Bibel über Frauen herauszufinden. Sicherlich stimme ich auch nicht mit allem überein, was in dem Buch steht. Aber bei all dem pseudobiblischen Unsinn, den Männer (und leider auch Frauen) konservativer Kreise über "Frauen im biblischen Sinn" von sich geben, ist es äußerst heilsam und ermutigend zu sehen, dass Jesus alles andere als ein Frauenunterdrücker war und die Misogynie in weiten Teilen der Kirche eben nicht dem Willen Gottes entspricht, sondern eher der Angst kleiner Männer, die sich eher um ihr Ego kümmern als um die Wahrheit.
    Ich hoffe, dass viele Christen dieses Buch lesen und sich daran reiben. Denn nur so kann Wachstum entstehen.
  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, thorough, gentle, spirit-filled
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2015
    Superb gentle spirit filled approach to a topic that has and continues to bring extreme hurt and disunity in the body of Christ. Wonderfully encouraging and thorough reflection on what God has to say to all of humanity and to see that being lived out in many different lives in many different ways. Can't wait to read the next book by this young insightful writer.
  • Mamasrk4
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hope for all women
    Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2013
    I am always nervous to read anything written by a friend. As a diagnosed compulsive bibliophile, I am a highly selective, critical reader. What if it’s badly written? What if she turns out to be a heretic? Fortunately, in Jesus Feminist, neither the former nor the latter is the case.
    I tend to be able to handle “Christian Books,” in small doses. A chapter here, a chapter there. But I picked up this book today and only put it down to eat (well, maybe not entirely-there is a spot of guacamole on one of the pages) and (fortunately for those on the roads today) to drive.
    Contrary to what you might think, this is not a controversy-sprouting, argumentative text. Bessey is less Pitbull and more Border Collie. The underlying theme is unmistakeable, the same as that of the Bible: love. It also mirrors the Word in the story of redemption, hope, forgiveness, truth, mercy and justice. This book, while not actually mentioning it, trumpets the verse in Micah 6, “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
    As the daughter of a woman pastor, I figured I knew the Bible’s stance on woman. But I experienced one surprise after another as Bessey pointed out so many things in Scripture I had never properly understood. What a message of hope for women and for the Church!
    Bessey’s writing is engaging, personal and humorous. You can feel her heart beating throughout her prose. I can tell you from personal experience that the writer behind these words is the same woman in front of them-full of love, joy and laughter. I am privileged to call her friend.
    I strongly recommend this book to all who claim to know and love Jesus, and to all who want to know more about Him.
  • April Cook
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
    Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2019
    I loved this book, it challenged how I feel about my faith and the way Sarah writes is very engaging. I felt like I was a part of a community that challenged me to love Jesus more and to be a better ambassador for his kingdom
  • Kari J.
    5.0 out of 5 stars :)
    Reviewed in Germany on September 29, 2020
    Pleased!