All the Way Home: Power for Your Family to Be Its Best by Mary Pride

All the Way Home: Power for Your Family to Be Its Best Reviews

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  Audrey

  I really like this book!!! I have not read the prequel "The Way Home" but I am definitely going too. This book covers tons of topics from marriage, s*x, and babies to house cleaning, home based business, and Church (home church, "church church", and missions/ministries). It is very easy to read and understand. The message is very important and needs to be spread. I only wish she would update this book as it was published in 1989; if the author would update it I think it would have a huge comeback and spark a renewed energy in its readers. A fabulous book!
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  Andy Hickman

  Home Schooling as a valid method of educating children. Yep, I get that. I really do. That's what I do.
  But .. her stance against contraception and her conservative views of women, I no longer agree with.
  
  I read this book several times a few years ago. I loved every word of it. But now I completely disagree with many things, the least of all the submissiveness of women. She alludes to the Bible verse 1 Tim 2 to validate such a belief.
  
  However, in my opinion, Paul was addressing the few disruptive uneducated people who were effectively making ministry difficult. This was Ephesus, women had been prophetesses of the goddess Diana, and they had tremendous influence. But Paul was not making a universal and eternal muzzling of all women everywhere.
  
  If the matter is really in doubt, we should not be using it to pass judgment on other people's calls. A 'fence around the law' interpretation was fine for the Pharisees, but Jesus' method of extrapolating from Scripture was to appeal to its intention and motive, not to let it mean all that it might legally mean for fear of contradicting it.
  
  After all, if someone else later read the letter, Paul would assume that they would be smart enough to recognize that he was addressing his letter to a situation in Ephesus, as the letter as a whole claims to do.
  
  The genre of 1&2 Timothy is occasional letters. They were for a specific occasion.
  “Paul … to Timothy … remain in Ephesus … Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me … Bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas when you come – and the books, especially the parchments. … Erastus stayed in Corinth, but Trophimus I have left in Miletus sick.
  Do your utmost to come before winter (winter is coming).”
  
  There is a universal principle in this text, but it is broader than that disruptive and unlearned women should not teach. If Paul does not want women to teach in some sense, it is not because they are women, but because they are unlearned. His principle here is that those who do not understand the Scriptures and are not able to teach them accurately should not be permitted to teach others. This text is unfortunately quite applicable today; there are all too many people teaching unhealthy interpretations of the Bible today, and most of them are men.” (James 3:1-2).
  
  Why do I say all this? Many will assume that Mary Pride's stance is based on the Bible, that it is 'a return to Biblical womanhood'. There are 'other' views, just as viable.
  Thanks for reading my review.
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  Shalyn

  I really liked this book! I loved her first one The way home so I had to read this one. It was written 30 years ago but it’s like she wrote it today. The range of topics were really informative and helpful.
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  Christopher Hachet

  Writer projects non biblical ideas about family and motherhood that can be harmful or toxic. Read this back in 1993 during my fundamentalist evangelical stage.
  
  Life is much better without Christianity or the ideas in this book.
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  Wendy Webber

  I didn't enjoy as much as the prequel. But still very good as long as you use as ideas/rough guide rather than hard, fast, strict rulings; remembering it is the underlying scripture principle that is important and that the implementation into our lives (with which this book chiefly deals) can look different. Some chapters are excellent and some I found challenging for me right now. Others, perhaps I'll come back to further down the road.
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  Janet

  More from Mary Pride.. love it!