Let's chat about motherhood (Part 1)

How the Bible is often used to diminish women to their uterus

Let me be clear: I love my children, deeply.

But I became a mother because “the Bible told me so.”

Or so I was told.

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In the homeschool, purity culture, and biblical womanhood movement I was raised in a woman’s highest calling was to be a wife and a mother. Her existence was to serve her husband and children. Proverbs 31 and Titus 2…