Womanly Dominion book

Pastor Mark Chanski has just published a new book called Womanly Dominion [More than a Gentle and Quiet Spirit]. If you're a woman, get this book and read it! It will give you a solid Biblical view of yourself and your noble and influential place in God's world, in His way. If you're a man, read this book anyway, and encourage the women in your life in their God-given spheres of influence and responsibility. (And by the way, if you're a man, I understand that his earlier book - Manly Dominion [In a Passive Purple-Four-Ball World] - is a great antidote to culture's message to men in our day. I haven't read it yet but have heard good things about it. Go get a copy!)

Chanski's message is that God's creation mandate was to both man and woman, to "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over [it]" (Gen.1:28, ESV), and that this mandate still holds today. Men and women are given different spheres of life, fitted by God for different responsibilities in His world, and we are each to go "subdue and have dominion" in the areas He has given us. Not to be passive or sit helplessly in our situations, but to go rule them for His glory.