For years, the fine team at the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood have provided a wise and helpful defense of the biblical family against the devastating influence of “evangelical feminism.” Last week they published a review of Vision Forum’s Passionate Housewives Desperate for God. An excerpt of Jeff Robinson’s review follows:

Jeff Robinson January 3, 2008

Are you a Christan woman who is wearied by the “Stepford Wife” stereotype or the myth of the Happy Days homemaker of the 1950s?

Jeannie Chancey and Stacy McDonald have produced the biblical antidote to such popular but false portrayals of the stay-at-home mom with their new book, Passionate Housewives Desperate for God: Fresh Vision for the Hopeful Homemaker, published by Vision Forum.

The goal of the book is clear: to debunk dangerous myths that exalt androgynous power women, the desperate house wives whose worth is measured by the degree of their self-ambition, the shape of their bodies and their money-making skills.

Stacy McDonald says she and Chancey wrote the book with the intention of weighing popular notions of womanhood upon the scales of Scripture and then pointing women to a far more biblical worldview of womanhood than is peddled by such popular culture icons as “Desperate Housewives.”

“One of the reasons Jennie and I wrote this books is because there are ‘desperate’ women who need to hear the truths of Scripture,” McDonald writes. “They need to know about God’s wonderful solution to their desperation-and that it won’t be met by chasing after more ‘me time.’”

The book is a biblical tour-de-force in defense of biblical womanhood and deals with numerous topics, including:

The false gospel of self. The beauty of a God-centered, Gospel-exalting marriage. Why real women are passionate about true womanhood, marriage and motherhood. What the Bible teaches about servant hood, servitude and slavery-and the difference. Real-life examples of biblical womanhood. Why being a homemaker is not a waste of God-given talents.

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