Pre-Read Book Review

I just begun to read A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter. Background on Jimmy, he born in 1924 and grew up on a farm in the small rural town of Archery, Georgia. He mentions at that time growing up, there was about fifty African American families and only two Caucasian families including his own. If you are interested in the movement of equality for women, minorities, or human rights in general this is a great informative read.

"I began to realize for the first time that I lived in a community where our Bible lessons were interpreted to accommodate the customs and ethical standards that were most convenient." -Jimmy Carter

This was personally difficult for me to read because I am a believer and I have sat in many church services. After Jimmy expressed that in his book he quoted scripture that I have many times read, but now I read in different mind set. 

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.


<sup>(That is usually when my head shuts off and I begin my argument to defend myself as the Alpha in the situation. But, there's more.)

25</sup> Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[a] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{[b] 32} This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:21-33 NIV)

Verses 28 and 29 say it right there! Why do we think so little of women? Why do we believe they're inferior to men? I don't think little of myself, I don't see myself lower than the man next to me. Why when ask how many women leaders can I think of (not including celebrities) and how many men leaders I can think of the ratio is 1:100. 

I am excited to continue A Call To Action by Jimmy Carter. And hopefully I convinced just one person to do the same.

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Danny