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Feminism was a scam.
Now what?
Women are faced with the massive opportunity of rebuilding in the wreckage of a Christian nation. How do we live faithfully as women now?
What are women designed for?
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“This is my new go-to recommendation for a book on biblical femininity. Merkle is excellently nuanced and not inappropriately prescriptive, while still being clear and unshrinkingly Scripture-based.”
“Well-researched.... This book has enough sass to keep it lighthearted, and lots of vision about building the culture of the home and bringing dignity instead of disgrace to the vocations of wife and mother.”
About the film
A bookumentary based on Eve in Exile, featuring author Rebekah Merkle
First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage and Prohibition. Second-Wave feminists marched for jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what. Modern women need liberating now more than ever. The truth is, feminists don't know what liberation is. They have led us into a very boring dead end.
This documentary follows author Rebekah Merkle as she discusses the role of Christian women in today’s world, the pitfalls and distractions we should avoid, and how we should approach rebuilding the ruins of the West.
Two Distractions
Do you have any friends who are really into prairie dresses and jumpers? They likely idealize the past and ignore its very real problems. But if you have lady friends who love pant-suits and 60-hour work weeks, you can tell they’ve been trained to look to the cubicle for fulfillment. Set aside these distractions and look at what the Bible actually says to women.
Enter Feminism
Who could be against equality for women? Nobody–but feminists have no clue how to get us there. First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage. Second-Wave feminists marched for Prohibition, jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what (maybe Bruce Jenner?). We’re bored and boring.
What are women designed for?
Toss out that trash and ask yourself, what does the Bible say to women? Well, each woman is called to subdue, fill, help, and glorify. And these four tasks are awe-inspiring and huge. So why do we act like God created the world… and then told the women to go wait in a corner while men do the important stuff?
Living out our design
You’re still thinking too small. This inspiring final section of the documentary will muss your hair a bit to show you how you can ponder how to make your God-given task to “subdue, fill, help, and glorify” real in your own life. Take the gifts, desires, and constraints God has given you, and weave them into something glorious—something that beckons a broken world to come, taste, see that the Lord is good.
Rebekah Merkle
Wife, mom, teacher, textile designer
Rebekah Merkle has dabbled in a number of occupations ranging from manning her own clothing label to designing her own fabrics to becoming a full-time high-school humanities teacher. Her designs have been featured in a number of magazines, she has written the books Eve in Exile and Classical Me, Classical Thee, and she has edited a Brit Lit curriculum for Canon Press. However, her proudest accomplishment is her crew of five outrageous, hilarious, high-speed teenage children, and her favorite role is that of wife to her similarly outrageous, hilarious, and high speed husband, Ben Merkle, who serves as president of New Saint Andrews College. She blogs at feminagirls.com, and hosts the podcast, What Have You, with her sister Rachel.
About the book
What is a Christian woman's role? In this powerful book by Rebekah Merkle we see that, no matter what they are doing, women are made for glory.
Eve in Exile dismisses the pencil-skirted and stiletto-heeled executives of TV, the outspoken feminists freed from all that hinders them, the brave career women in charge of their own destinies. Once those fictionalized stereotypes are out of the way—whether they're things that make you gag or things you think look pretty fun—Christians can focus on real women. What did God make real women for?
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