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What a waste of time. Thankfully it took less than a couple of hours to go through the whole overly simplistic, banal tripe that this "study" is. In summation, there are two basic and glaring problems with using this as any sort of "guide". #1 - the lack of hermeneutic or study methodology in Ms. Alexander's approach. This seems to be a bunch of personal, warped views that have gone into the Bible and cherry picked verses to try to prove and agenda and then pieced them together in a "workbook" that only asks for "yes" or "no" or to write verses. There is no contemplation. There is no digging for context and meaning in the time it was written, translating that into theological truth that is good for all time, and then room for the Spirit of God to move in someone to apply it in her own life. It's like the worst kind of 3rd grade Sunday school study that simply wastes time and teaches nothing beyond the overly simplistic (and errant conclusions) that are the titles of each chapter. and 2) Ms. Alexander completely ignores both the Imago Dei and personhood of women in her "study". There is no teaching of what it means to be a follower of God as a person - that is universal to all who profess belief. Most of her arguments are arguments from silence or "omission". She assumes (wrongly) that ONLY the admonitions directly articulated at women can be studied apart from those which are directed at all who follow Christ. This is a path to heresy, and really why she cannot seem to grasp the importance of women being made in the image and likeness of God as persons. Because of this repeated failing, she often drifts towards viewing women as in the image of man, and therefore outside the restorative redemption of God. Nothing could be further from the truth in Scripture. Both men and women are made in the Image of God, and both share in the same righteousness and salvation of Christ. And there are shared callings because of this, not limited to: going and making disciples of all nations - which requires that we 1. speak up (not be quiet) and 2. leave home. There are so many other fundamental gospel-denying flaws in this that it would be longer than her so-called "study" to go over them all. So, in short, Ms. Alexander throws out the baby with the bathwater once again in the name of "teaching Biblical womanhood" and ignores everything that pertains to Christians no matter what gender. The reality is that the Bible is written to all of us, and we cannot separate a small little segment and say that "women are only responsible for these simple, childlike tasks" and still embrace that we are full, joint heirs with Christ and adopted with all the same rights AS SONS while still being women. Once again, Lori's lack of spiritual maturity is at the forefront of this. She has nothing to offer women who are adults in this study. Get your homemaking advice from someone who actually does more than tells you to stay at home. And get your Bible advice from someone who cares enough to learn how to study the Bible as well as understand the context and theology of both human beings and women. We should keep praying for her - as she obviously needs to know the grace of God in a transformative way.