Working Women?

I love this article.  It somehow sums up how I feel about conservative viewpoints that uphold being a wife and stay-at-home motherhood as the only respectable role for Christian women.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2013/june/my-calling-as-female-breadwinner.html?paging=off

The last paragraph sums it up quite nicely: "Whatever you do, lady reader—and however much or little money you make doing it—do it with all your heart, knowing that you receive your calling and identity from God, not from fellow Christians who play exegetical leapfrog with Scripture."

And I am encouraged by her reference to Colossians to support her viewpoint.  Because it is removed from the passages of Timothy and Corinthians that are the ground zero of such a charged topic.

Collected Quotes, Episode II

"'George,' Alanna said.  The other two looked at her. Her face was bewildered.  'I--I don't understand,' she stammered.  'Why do this for me?  You went to a lot of trouble.  Why?'
George looked at her for a long moment.  Finally he replied, 'And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?  That's the way of friendship, lad.'
Alanna shook her head.  'But I haven't done anything for you.'
'That's not how it works,' the thief said dryly."
--Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

Collected Quotes, Episode I

"Holiness isn't about sticking to a list of rules.  It isn't something you either have or don't have, keep or lose.  It's a way of life, filled with twists and turns, mistakes and growth, uncertainty and reward." --Rachel Held Evans