Woman Living Biblically One Year: Woman Lives Out Bible Literally for Year, Writes Book, Gets Scorned for Use of Word ‘Vagina’: An Evangelical blogger’s attempt to “live Biblically” has caused some controversy in Evangelical circles.

Rachel Held Evans was raised Evangelical Christian. She often speaks at Christian universities and her father is a professor at a faith-based college inTennessee. Evans’ Biblical background got her thinking about the Bible’s rules for women, so she set out to abide by them for a year — literally.


Evans embarked on a 12-month experiment and wrote about it on her blog. Her husband, Dan (and college sweetheart), fully supported her project until some of her stunts “freaked him out.”

He was a bit taken back when Evans praised him with a sign outside the city gates as instructed in the Old Testament (Proverbs 31:23).

When Evans complained, nagged or gossiped, she put a penny in a jar of contention. Within the first couple of days Evans said she already had 26 pennies.
As penance, she sat for one minute on her roof — as instructed Proverbs 21:9. According to the scripture, “It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.”

Evans blogged about living life as a Biblical woman and said the response was overwhelmingly postive. But Evans said there has been some criticism and admitted she was surprised at how harsh her critics were, who claimed she was mocking the Bible.

While she acknowledged she pulled a lot of crazy stunts, she said was not poking fun at scriptures.