Customer Reviews
Life-changing 
2008-07-03
As a 30-year old mother of two daughters, this book transformed my perspective of my role as wife and mother; it equipped me with a vision for raising our daughters to glorify God through their earthly relationships. This book is at the top of my list!
Very Infomative! 2008-05-27
This book was probably the best book I've ever read concerning young women. I'm new to this whole biblical girlhood, womanhood, femininity thing and this book answered every one of my question and then some. Furthermore, this book was very easy to read and had great footnotes and gave references to the bible.
The books has eighteen chapters two Appendixes and a acknowledgment.
At times I was a bit uncomfortable seeing how me and my father don't get along very well but the Botkin sisters made it very clear that that's okay, and that even if I don't have a Godly father I can strive to give my future (God-willing) children something that I never had.
One of the chapters talk about Christ's enemies, who they are (Karl Marx), and Marxism connection with feminism and how it hasn't helped women.
The books also tells the readers what is a real woman, and traits that we Christian women should strive to cultivate or get rid of. The chapter also talks about how a godly woman should dress and the standards of dress. (They never make it clear that women should wear only dresses just small hints. Which are quite obvious). What femininity is, what young women should be learning before marriage, why their against sending young women to college, they talk about the right career for women, and what we should try to learn in order to become good wives, and clear up a couple thing about the proverbs 31 woman.
The Botkin sisters have been accused of trying to take America back 200 and they have not just the good parts of american history and applying them to today. Which is good because as an African-American I don't think that I want to go back 200 years... If you know what I mean (slavery, Jim Crow etc.)
This book is more of a question and answer book than a novel and has several testimonies by women both young and old.
I would recommend this books for beginners of the faith. (specifically fathers and daughters)
Phenominal Book! 2008-05-18
This is perhaps the most important book I've read in the past decade. I've passed it on to many women who are either truly encouraged by it or they hate it with a bitter passion. If you are a Christian feminist, you'll hate it. If not...you will probably LOVE it! So figure out which camp you're in...and that will help you decide whether or not to buy the book!
A Diamond 2008-05-01
Every young lady of this generation must read this book. It is profound, precise, and completely biblical in its contents. But even more than young ladies, I encourage their fathers to read this. But be prepared! It will open your eyes. ;)
An eye opening read! 2008-01-21
The young sisters who wrote this book use scripture to decide what a young women's role needs to be, even in this modern culture. I've read dozens books about being a godly wife, but this is the only one written about being a godly daughter! This is an eye opening read for fathers, mothers, and daughters that will help Christians get a clue about what god created the family for and how Satan is subtly tearing it apart.
I can't believe this book exists! 2007-12-14
This book is not another Christian-teenage-girl âsurvival guide.â
So Much More shows how Christian girls can wage war with the world and win. The Botkin sisters focus on how young women can rise above their God-hating culture and change it for the better. Today, countless young ladies face difficult problems and challenging questions. While many long for godly purpose in their lives, their bewilderment mounts when they observe broken homes, distant fathers, overwhelmed mothers, degrading college courses, and a lack of spiritual guidance â both at home and at church. As hope for security and stability fades, it is no wonder that many young ladies feel orphaned, unprotected, and without hope for their futures. Within the pages of this book, discover practical, biblical solutions for the young woman who wants to do so much more than just âsurviveâ in a savagely feministic, anti-Christian culture. Find the answers a girl is not likely to get from her church, her peers, or her culture.
Fine If Man is a True Follower of Christ 
2007-12-04
Christian men and women are to submit to the Lordship of Christ. When each does, sublimating their sinful desires to Christ's holy and pure will, the outcome is excellent.
But only when each does.
Otherwise, much abuse takes place under the guise of following a Biblical mandate.
The concept promoted in this book DESTROYS LIVES!!!!! 
2007-11-20
The Botkin girls will tell you that if you follow their template for how a young girl should live, then you will be happy, godly, and content.
And that may be true in a very small percentage of cases.
What they don't tell you is that for the majority of the girls out there that don't blindly accept a rationale but actually compare it to what Scripture really says, any attempt to implement this plan of "daughters at home under authority" will crush their spirits, obliterate any dreams that don't fall into their father's, declare their personhood to be inconsequential, relegate their honest intellect to the ranting of a "rebellious heart", in the process DESTROYS FAMILIAL HARMONY AND TRUST AND ULTIMATELY THE FAMILY ITSELF and the hearts that it's comprised of.
Sounds harsh and crazy, you say? I would only say such a thing after watching it happen... in real life, to real people who are have their world torn apart by the idea that what the Botkin sisters are prescribing is the "Biblical model".
I don't take joy in saying that THIS BOOK IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for those who take it as Biblically inspired and try to implement it as such.
I'll let others elaborate on the other inconsistencies between this book and Scripture, but I think it should suffice to say that the idea that an unmarried woman should serve her earthly father is a direct contradiction of what the Bible says when Paul writes that an unmarried woman will "not be concerned with the things of the world, but with serving her Heavenly Father" (1 Cor, 7). The Botkin girls will tell you that serving your earthly father IS serving your heavenly one, but Jesus Himself said that "no one can serve two masters". It also seems to me that the conservative American church's position that being a wife and mother is "a woman's highest calling" (don't get me wrong, I am one!!!) is diametrically opposed to Paul's assertion that "a woman who chooses to remain unmarried chooses the BETTER THING"... but that's just a side note.
This book also treads perilous ground when they assert that there should be no single female missionaries. It's a precarious place to stand indeed, on a position that is not explicitly written in Scripture, but instead promotes disobedience to an ACTUAL COMMAND given by Jesus "to go into all the world and make disciples in all nations"... if Jesus didn't feel the need to limit it to male or married persons, then who are we to project that qualification on it and thereby impugn His words???? A very dangerous position to teach, indeed.
At best, what this book presents may be a "good" or "wise" course for a very few girls who are indeed called to stay in their parents home for a period of their single years. But the reality is that what is proposed is also presented as the ONLY choice for those that are truly following God, and that is an assertion that can be supported NOWHERE in Scripture, but instead flies in the face of what it says in 1 Corinthians 12, that "there is one Spirit, but many different manifestations of it".
Again, I cannot tell you how enough how DANGEROUS this book is. If the direct contradictions with Scripture isn't enough to convince you, PLEASE LET THE PLEA OF THOSE WHO HAVE TRAVELED THIS ROAD they propose and WOUND UP WITH SHATTERED HEARTS AND LIVES sink in before you wrap your life's path around this teaching.
This Book Changed Our Family Forever! 2007-09-04
Let me say, as a mom reared in a non-Christian home in the 70's and a college grad. - I had worldly expectations for my own children. I bought this book, unread (because I trust everything Doug Phillips endorses), and gave it to my daughter for a Christmas present. She read it, prayed about it and approached me with her newfound convictions that staying home and serving her father's vision until marriage-if that should happen-was the best way for her to glorify God after high school. It took me some time - I mean, my daughter is so gifted! But as I read the Botkin sisters offering of their hearts to us, I, too, was changed. Now my daughter and I are strong-standing advocates of biblical womanhood against a very strong tide of feminism within and without our families. We praise God for the renewed family vision this book has given - it put our desires to serve and glorify God and focused them into a practical, doable, daily-life-walk reality. Even my expectations for my son changed and we have been able to discuss what he should be looking for in a future wife's mindset and heart-posture. I praise God for the clarity of God-glorifying purpose and conviction that the Botkin sisters were able to biblically espouse in this book. May women's hearts to live out biblical womanhood gloriously grow as this book gains ground!
Jeremiah 6:16 - Following the Ancient Paths 2007-08-30
We would like to thank the Botkin Ladies for spending so much time and energy to write this book as an inspiration to young ladies! Every other week, we get together with our sisters in Christ to read the book "So Much More". While we do this, we craft and pursue profitable projects (as one of the mothers reads to us). We are learning so much! One of the moms challenged us to follow the Botkin girls' advice and ask our fathers about how we can help him fulfill his vision. "So Much More" has encouraged us to cultivate a deeper, closer relationship with our fathers. We are enjoying this learning experience and are looking forward to reading more from this encouraging book! We would highly recommend "So Much More" to any young ladies who are preparing to be godly wives, helpers, and mothers.
~Hannah, Keilah, Elizabeth, Abigail, and Grace
