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On my last post, I mentioned a book by Debi Pearl about marriage. I didn't realize that I had gone on such a tangent in my review until two people mentioned it to me. One gal emailed me and asked me what my concerns about the book are. I thought I would post my concerns here. It was a few years ago when I started reading Created to be his  helpmeet. I wrote this review on Amazon at the time... "I was very discouraged by this book.  To summarize briefly what this  book is about--Ms. Pearl addresses what it means to be a submissive wife and how one would live that out. What I read didn't sit with me,  t hough I do agree with all that I've read in the Bible--that wives are to  submit to their husbands.  When I read Created to be His Helpmeet, I began to get very upset and my husband suggested that I stop reading it and just read the Bible. I  stopped at that point. But, I picked it up recently to try and understand a woman I knew who had been...

Over the course of my marriage, which is now almost 10 years, I have been challenged by the Lord from the beginning about submission.   When I married my husband, I might have been called an Evangelical feminist.   I was raised in a Quaker Church and had only heard the word "submission" once when I was a senior in high school at a Baptist church.   The gal who spoke of it was someone that I did not look up to, but rather always felt judged by.   After that first time, I didn't hear the word again until I got married nine years later.   My husband and I met and married in six months, so you can imagine how much we had to work out and navigate in that first year.   It was a rough year.   A few months into our marriage, I came upon a book titled Feminism: Mystique or Mistake by Diane Passno.   Ms. Passno talked straight and didn't dance around the issues.   Her book opened my eyes about the lies I'd been fed by feminism over the years. ...