Where's Mom?

Where's Mom?: The High Calling of Wives and Mothers
Dorothy Kelley Patterson, Dennis Rainey (Foreword)

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A mother and professor answers crucial questions for women who find themselves enslaved to their work and careers, who may be asking whether the "liberation" promised by feminism rings hollow. Dorothy Kelley Patterson shows that being a wife and mother is a high calling and a worthy service in itself. She provides insights from God's Word and refutes the idea that fulfillment can come only outside the home--rather, homemaking is as fulfilling a vocation as any job in the marketplace.

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Feminism promises women “liberation” from the home to pursue fulfillment in professional careers and public recognition, but can it deliver?

Often women who have taken salaried jobs and titled positions have found themselves enslaved to the priorities of work and career. As a result many of these women face failures in child rearing and homemaking and find that the dual responsibilities of career and family may crowd out the time for personal creativity.

Dorothy Patterson urges women to reconsider these priorities and not to forget who they are meant to be. An educated professional woman herself, Patterson probes several crucial questions about the high calling of wives and mothers in light of biblical teaching:

This book confronts the questions that the women of our generation are asking and provides straightforward, meaningful answers from God’s Word, giving guidance to women who want to be all they can be without forgetting who they are meant to be.

About the Author

Dorothy Kelley Patterson is an active homemaker, author, and frequent speaker and Bible teacher at women’s conferences, as well as a mother and grandmother. She is Professor of Women’s Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, where her husband, Paige Patterson, is the president. She studied at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (Th.M.), Luther Rice Theological Seminary (D.Min.), and the University of South Africa (D.Theol.).